Mama Africa

Credits

Name: Mama Africa

Country: Finnland/ Deutschland

Year of publication: 2011

Color: color and b/w

Language : OF m. dt. UT

Duration: 89 Minuten

Direction: Kaurismäki, Mika

Screenplay: Kaurismäki, Mika; Edkins, Don

Camera: Held, Wolfgang; Cheuiche, Jacques; Lehmann, Frank; Radwan, Martina; Tahor, Eran

Editing: Dresch, Uwe; Bendocchi-Alves, André; Harley, Karen

Sound: Dresch, Uwe

Actor: Makeba, Miriam

Abstract

Documentary with expressive archive material about the South African singer Miriam Makeba (1932–2008), who due to her dedication to fighting colonialism and racism became the “Voice of Africa“.