The Mad Masters (1955)

The Mad Masters (1955)

Release Date: 1955, August 24
Directors: Jean Rouch
Countries: France, Ghana
Production: Les Films de la Pléiade

Overview:

The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by French Colonial administrators. The participants performed the same elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers, but in more of a trance than true recreation.

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