The Comedians in Africa (1967)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 11 min
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A British hotel owner in Haiti watches his world crumble under a brutal dictatorship. The film follows his growing fatalism as he deals with violence and corruption around him.
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What happens
The Comedians is a 1967 American political drama film based on a book by Graham Greene. It was directed and produced by British filmmaker Peter Glenville. Graham Greene wrote the screenplay. The stars were Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, and Alec Guinness. Paul Ford and Lillian Gish had supporting roles as a presidential candidate and wife, as did James Earl Jones as an island doctor. Set in Haiti during the regime of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, it was filmed in Dahomey (Benin since 1975). The film tells the story of a sardonic British hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism and squalor under Duvalier. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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