Cinema
Fimbo ya Mnyonge
Anonymous · 1974
Synopsis
The plot is not known. Histories of Tanzanian cinema describe it as an edifying tale, serving the ideas of ujamaa and village self-reliance, made with few resources, one camera and two actors, and say that it was a great success with the public.
Context
The film came out of the state film company that the new government had set up to bring its doctrine of the socialist village to the screen; the reels were then sent to be developed in South Africa or in England, for lack of a laboratory on the spot, which led to the creation of an audiovisual institute in 1974. The country's cinemas showed mostly films from Bombay and imported action films, all subject to a censorship board, and a local production found only a marginal place there.
Who it is for
A film in Swahili, with very limited distribution. The context of state production under ujamaa sheds light on its form.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the country's first fiction feature film, it is almost impossible to find today.
Sources for this page 4
The pages consulted to check this page.