Juonikuvaukset(1)
Film and photograph are being contrasted at times. Film is fire, photograph ice. Film is motion and dynamics, photograph is one moment, solidified time. But how then should one characterize a documentary predominantly consisting of old black and white photographs? A little bit of both, so nothing in the end? The film Have You Seen 'Drum' Recently? does not suffer from the above-mentioned flaw. With the help of photographs, music, and sometimes an interview, Jürgen Schadeberg manages to conjure up a vivid image of South Africa during the fifties. In those days, Schadeberg was a press photographer of Drum, a trendy and progressive magazine concentrating on black readers. He used the photographs from the files of Drum to make a documentary, completed with fragments from the feature films Come Back Africa and The Magic Garden. Significant and linking elements in this film are the sparkling and swinging music, like big band, jazz, kwela, and penny whistle, and the interviews with, among others, artists that sang the music at the time. The whole film is pervaded with the atmosphere of happy days for the black community, not in the least because of the high expectations they still had in those days. Nelson Mandela, totally unknown then, appears in the boxing ring, and Oliver Tambo at the beginning of his career as a lawyer. In the background, however, the dark clouds of apartheid are gathering. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
(lisää)Näyttelijät
Miriam Makeba
Etelä-Afrikka
Parhaat elokuvat:
Sarafina ! (1992)
Amok (1982)