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Zaïre : le cycle du serpent = the cycle of the serpent / un film de Thierry Michel ; produit par Christine Pireaux ; scénario et réalisation, Thierry Michel.
LIBRA VHS DT658.25 .Z35 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Michel, Thierry, 1952- author, director.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Democratic Republic of the Congo--History--1960-.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Congo (Democratic Republic).
- History.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Zaire, the cycle of the serpent
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1992.
- Language Note:
- French dialogue, English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Documents five weeks in Kinshasa, chronicling life in the capital city and revealing the disparities in its social fabric. In addition to bourgeois traders, religious and military figures, we see beggars, transients and social outcasts, and Zaireans grieving for their dead, martyrs to an iron-gloved dictator.
- Credits:
- Photography, Michel Techy; editor, Pilar Morales; music, Bashita Kabongo.
- Notes:
- Videocassette release of the 1992 motion picture, produced by les Films de la Passerelle, le Centre de l'Audiovisuel de Bruxelles, la RTBF, la SEPT and Zeaux Productions.
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 35217062
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