Overview - The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

Overview

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews made to writers and advocates of the freedom movements with stock images, thus allowing him to touch on such matters as colonialism, neocolonialism, colonial exploitation, the struggles and battles of the revolutionary movements for Independence.

Cast

• Name: Nina Simone

  Character: Self

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• Name: Archie Shepp

  Character: Self

  Popularity: 0.5685

  

• Name: Miriam Makeba

  Character: Self

  Popularity: 1.2209

  

• Name: Marion Williams

  Character: Self

  Popularity: 0.2686

  

• Name: Amílcar Cabral

  Character: Self

  Popularity: 0.5033

  

• Name: René Depestre

  Character: Self

  Popularity: 0.3222

  

• Name: Armando Guebuza

  Character: Self

  Popularity: 0.138

  

• Name: Mazisi Kunene

  Character: Self

  Popularity: 0.2853