End of the Dialogue (1970)

Original title

Phela-ndaba

Directed by

Vus Make & Rakhetla Tsehlana, Chris Curling, Antonia Caccia, Simon Louvish

Genre

documentary film

Country

South Africa

Runtime

50 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary was made secretly by black South Africans and British film students to show the reality of apartheid. It was shot undercover and smuggled out of the country to reach a worldwide audience.

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What happens

End of the Dialogue (Phelandaba) , also known as A Black View of South Africa is a 1970 documentary film made by five black South African expatriate members of the Pan-Africanist Congress and London film students who wanted to document Apartheid in South Africa. Because of South Africa's restrictive laws governing what could be photographed, the film had to be shot clandestinely and smuggled out of the country. It was edited and released in England. The film caused an uproar when it was originally released in 1970. It was released worldwide and also screened on television in many countries, including the U.S. (as a CBS special), U.K. (on Man Alive), and New Zealand. The film is valuable as not only a record of history, but also a record of how little the outside world understood about what was happening in apartheid South Africa. The London Observer called it, "the most successful act of clandestine subversion against apartheid for years." The same team went on to make Last Grave at Dimbaza. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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