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Film Details
Year
2025
Duration
90 minutes
Genres
Archive Non-Fiction, Documentary
Language
English
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Synopsis
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, Chris Hesse was the personal cameraman to Ghana’s first president after British colonial rule, Kwame Nkrumah. This gave him a front row seat to the pan-African liberation movement, as Nkrumah rallied other countries towards independence. Hesse filmed everything. But when Nkrumah was overthrown in a coup, Hesse’s footage was lost – or so it seemed. This remarkable documentary meets Hesse at ninety-years-old, having rescued and repatriated a secret trove of over 1,000 reels from an archive in London. He has also set up Ghana’s first film school. With the help of the young filmmaker Anita Afonu and Mr Addo, an elderly projectionist of a run-down movie theatre, Hesse sets out to restore both his films and the once-splendid Rex Cinema to share Ghana’s film legacy with the next generation.
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