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O'Kung - Afrikas sidste urfolk (1961)

O'Kung - Afrikas sidste urfolk poster
Directed by
Jens Bjerre
Genre
documentary film
Country
Denmark
Runtime
49 min

How it feels

Danish filmmaker Jens Bjerre lived with the O'Kung people, a hunter-gatherer group in the Kalahari Desert, for eight weeks. The film shows their daily life, rituals, and ceremonies in 1950s Botswana and Namibia.

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What happens

O'Kung - Afrikas sidste urfolk er en dokumentarfilm fra 1961 instrueret af Jens Bjerre. Forfatter og filmproducent Jens Bjerre filmede i 1950'erne buskmandsstamme O'Kung, som hører til de allerældste racer i verden. De levede som jægere og samlere i det øde sletteland Kalahari, som dækker store dele af Namibia og Botswana. Filmen skildrer stammefolkenes primitive dagligliv samt deres ritualer og ceremonier, der har afgørende betydning for sammenhold i stammen. Bjerre levede i 8 uger sammen med O'Kung stammen for at lave filmen, der har vundet flere internationale priser. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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