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Ashakara.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Louvin, Gérard, film director.
Koulinga Productions.
ArtMattan Productions.
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Medical drama.
Viruses--Africa, West--Drama.
Viruses.
Pharmaceutical industry--Africa, West--Drama.
Pharmaceutical industry.
West Africa.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Drama.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 video file (98 minutes)) : sound, color.
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] : Art Mattan Productions, [1991].
System Details:
digital
Summary:
Set in Togo, West Africa, Ashakara is a modern African tale. An African doctor finds a cure to a deadly virus and decides to mass produce the drug at low cost in Africa. However, a pharmaceutical multinational does not want the doctor to succeed and sends an agent to Africa first to buy the drug then to destroy it ...
Notes:
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 11, 2022).
Originally produced by ArtMattan Films in 1991.
OCLC:
897410293
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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