Lucy's Revenge
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1hr
30mins
Directed by
Evelyne Georges,
Janusz Mrozowski,
Madeleine Vincensini,
Starring
Tom Novembre,
Pierre-Loup Rajot,
Ann-Gisel Glass,
Aïssa Maïga
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After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he's also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.