De fatale reis
Een film van Francis Dujardin
- Majoritaire -
Synopsis
The extraordinary and tragic saga of 267 congolese, brought to Brussels for the 1897 World’s Fair. After some four months of travel towards Belgium, they are exhibited before a million visitors. Subjected to the crushing gaze of the "whites" and the cold climate many fall prey to disease... some lose their lives. The dead were hastily dispatched in a common grave, sparking a fierce debate in Belgian society. The project was overblown, but necessary in the eyes of the first colonisers, who presumed to have tamed the far-flung savages... One hundred years later, Congolese compatriots return to the scene of these events and question the "whites" of today on the incredible story of that "human zoo". They carry out the ritual of "a return to the earth" by way of reparation for too great a hurt... A film that revisits a century of stereotyped conceptions about the Africans. And running through it, the almost aching question : "How is today different ?"
Productie fiche
Documentaire
54 min
Kleur
Betacam Dg 16/9
Originele versie : Frans en nederlands en Nederlanse versie 42 min
Ondertiteld : Engels
Crew
Regie : Francis Dujardin
Beeld – D.O.P. : Louis-Philippe Capelle
Klank : Marc Engels
Monteur : Eva Houdova
Productie
COBRA Films
Coproductie
RTBF
VRT/Canvas
WIP
Met steun van
Communauté française de Belgique
CEE DG développement
Prijs
Festival International de Genève "Média Nord-Sud" (Suisse),
Festival international de Bruxelles (Belgique)
Uitzendingen
RTBF, VRT, Canal+ (Belgique), Histoires (France), TSR (Suisse), Historia (Canada), MTV3 (Finlande)
Festival (s)
Cinéma indépendant de Bruxelles (Belgique), Racines noires Paris 2002 (France), Deutsches Filmmuseum Africa Alive Festival 2006 (Allemagne)