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Come Back, Africa is a 1959 film, the second feature-length film written, produced, and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film had a profound effect on African cinema, and remains of great historical and cultural importance as a document preserving the heritage of the townships in South Africa in the 1950s. It may be classified as reportage, documentary, historical movie or political cinema, since it portrays real events and people. On the other hand, it reveals an interpretation of meaningful social facts and a strong ethical assumption towards human behaviours like racism.

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  • Come Back, Africa is a 1959 film, the second feature-length film written, produced, and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film had a profound effect on African cinema, and remains of great historical and cultural importance as a document preserving the heritage of the townships in South Africa in the 1950s. It may be classified as reportage, documentary, historical movie or political cinema, since it portrays real events and people. On the other hand, it reveals an interpretation of meaningful social facts and a strong ethical assumption towards human behaviours like racism. Like Rogosin's feature debut On the Bowery, Come Back, Africa is a scripted film based on fictional narrative, in which actors play invented roles. However, unlike mainstream films and against Hollywood traditions, its actors are street people, improvising lived experiences: they play their own lives or those of people like them. That is why Come Back, Africa is a fiction / non-fiction, a hybrid of fictional film and documentary: a docufiction. Additionally, it is a rare combination in film history of docufiction and political film. Both Lionel Rogosin in America and Jean Rouch in France, at the same time, considered themselves as Robert Flaherty's heirs for similar reasons. Both used amateur actors, "street people" playing their own roles in search of truth or to unveil some hidden mystery beyond crude reality: Rogosin, contrary to Flaherty, sustained by strong ideological beliefs, Rouch, beyond Flaherty, inspired by surrealism, which he believed to be a useful means to reveal the '’truth of cinema'’ (the cinéma-vérité) and also an important tool to be used by an ethnographer for scientific research. Following different paths to reach similar results, both converged in ethnofiction with surprising results (See: Glossary). (en)
  • Come Back, Africa est un film de guérilla américain une docufiction réalisée par Lionel Rogosin, sorti en 1960. (fr)
  • Come Back, Africa es una película sudafricana de 1959 escrita, producida y dirigida por el cineasta independiente estadounidense Lionel Rogosin. Contó con las actuaciones de Vinah Makeba, Zachria Makeba, Molly Parkin y Miriam Makeba en los papeles principales.​​​ La película tuvo un profundo efecto en el cine africano, y aún se considera de gran importancia histórica y cultural, como un documento que preserva la herencia de las aldeas de Sudáfrica en los 50. Se puede clasificar como un reportaje, documental, película histórica o cine político, dado que plasma eventos y personas reales. (es)
  • Come Back, Africa adalah sebuah film dramadokumenter Afrika Selatan-Amerika Serikat yang dirilis pada tahun 1959. Film ini ditulis, diproduksi, dan disutradarai oleh pembuat film independen Amerika . Film ini diperankan oleh bintang-bintang film Afrika Selatan, yaitu Miriam Makeba, , , dan . Film ini memiliki efek mendalam pada sinema Afrika dan hingga kini tetap dianggap memiliki nilai budaya dan sejarah yang penting karena mendokumentasikan warisan budaya unik dari kehidupan perkotaan di Afrika Selatan pada tahun 1950-an. (in)
  • Come Back, Africa é um filme de 1959 do cineasta estadunidense que retrata a situação discriminatória vivida na África do Sul com a ascensão do Partido Nacional naquela década, com endurecimento das leis segregacionistas e início do regime que passou à história com o nome de Apartheid. Em sua primeira década no poder o Partido Nacional institucionalizou a segregação impondo graves restrições à educação, trabalho, relacionamentos, habitação e outras, de forma que o filme teve que ser gravado secretamente, e é considerado o primeiro filme sul-africano anti-apartheid. (pt)
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  • Emil Knebel (en)
  • Ernst Artaria (en)
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  • Lionel Rogosin Films (en)
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  • Carl Lerner (en)
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  • Lucy Brown, Chatur Lal (en)
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  • Come Back, Africa est un film de guérilla américain une docufiction réalisée par Lionel Rogosin, sorti en 1960. (fr)
  • Come Back, Africa es una película sudafricana de 1959 escrita, producida y dirigida por el cineasta independiente estadounidense Lionel Rogosin. Contó con las actuaciones de Vinah Makeba, Zachria Makeba, Molly Parkin y Miriam Makeba en los papeles principales.​​​ La película tuvo un profundo efecto en el cine africano, y aún se considera de gran importancia histórica y cultural, como un documento que preserva la herencia de las aldeas de Sudáfrica en los 50. Se puede clasificar como un reportaje, documental, película histórica o cine político, dado que plasma eventos y personas reales. (es)
  • Come Back, Africa adalah sebuah film dramadokumenter Afrika Selatan-Amerika Serikat yang dirilis pada tahun 1959. Film ini ditulis, diproduksi, dan disutradarai oleh pembuat film independen Amerika . Film ini diperankan oleh bintang-bintang film Afrika Selatan, yaitu Miriam Makeba, , , dan . Film ini memiliki efek mendalam pada sinema Afrika dan hingga kini tetap dianggap memiliki nilai budaya dan sejarah yang penting karena mendokumentasikan warisan budaya unik dari kehidupan perkotaan di Afrika Selatan pada tahun 1950-an. (in)
  • Come Back, Africa é um filme de 1959 do cineasta estadunidense que retrata a situação discriminatória vivida na África do Sul com a ascensão do Partido Nacional naquela década, com endurecimento das leis segregacionistas e início do regime que passou à história com o nome de Apartheid. Em sua primeira década no poder o Partido Nacional institucionalizou a segregação impondo graves restrições à educação, trabalho, relacionamentos, habitação e outras, de forma que o filme teve que ser gravado secretamente, e é considerado o primeiro filme sul-africano anti-apartheid. (pt)
  • Come Back, Africa is a 1959 film, the second feature-length film written, produced, and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film had a profound effect on African cinema, and remains of great historical and cultural importance as a document preserving the heritage of the townships in South Africa in the 1950s. It may be classified as reportage, documentary, historical movie or political cinema, since it portrays real events and people. On the other hand, it reveals an interpretation of meaningful social facts and a strong ethical assumption towards human behaviours like racism. (en)
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