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Haile Gerima (writer)
Release Date:
28 May 1993 (USA)
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A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back...
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Plantation
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Africa
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West Indies
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Fashion
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1 nomination
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Tara was fiction, this is real!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kofi Ghanaba | ... | Sankofa |
| Oyafunmike Ogunlano | ... | Mona |
| Alexandra Duah | ... | Nunu |
| Nick Medley | ... | Joe |
| Mutabaruka | ... | Shango |
| Afemo Omilami | ... | Noble Ali |
| Reggie Carter | ... | Father Raphael |
| Mzuri | ... | Lucy |
| Jimmy Lee Savage | ... | Mussa |
| Hasinatu Camara | ... | Jumma |
| Jim Faircloth | ... | James |
| Stanley Michelson | ... | Mr. Lafayette |
| John A. Mason | ... | Big Boy |
| Louise Reid | ... | Esther |
| Roger Doctor | ... | Nathan |
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UK:124 min | USA:125 min
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When no company would distribute his film, director Haile Gerima went city to city, screening the film personally. It grossed around three million dollars.
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Referenced in 500 Years Later (2005)
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Most older movies and many movies in general like "Song of the South" and "Gone With the Wind" depicted Slavery as an okay instuition. In those films Slaves are depicted as Happy in that institiution, but in this film you see how Slaves really felt. Also you can see their humanity and knowledge where in older films they were depicted as ignorant.
This film is really, really neat for an independent film, and it shows a real slave castle in Gahana. Sankofa is a term that... Well, get the movie and you will learn more about it.
It does a good job of taking you through the film from a slaves point of view. The film uses that interesting "lens" to illustrate just how wrong slavery was. It also gives insight into the family unit among slaves, which may explain the black family today in America. Understanding the history of black families during slavery may be used to help understand the black family today in it's struggles to have cohesiveness.