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A Daughter of the Congo (1930)

A Daughter of the Congo poster
Directed by
Oscar Micheaux
Genre
silent film, race film
Country
United States
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is caught between romance and duty in a story set during a military conflict. It follows her choices and the cavalrymen who try to win her heart.

dramaticromantichistoricalearnestmelodramaticpatrioticslow-paced

What happens

A Daughter of the Congo is a 1930 American race film directed, written and produced by Oscar Micheaux. The film is loosely based on the novel The American Cavalryman (1917), by African-American novelist and playwright Henry Francis Downing. It is considered a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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