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
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
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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See You Tomorrow (1970)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.