Freedom (1957)
1h 36m
Running Time
August 15, 1957Release Date
Plot.
Freedom, Nigeria's contribution to the 1957 Berlin Film Festival, was based on a play commissioned by the Moral Re-Armament Association. Based on a stage piece, the film is an unabashed paean to the MRA, demonstrating how the organization helped to check British colonialism and radical insurrection in Nigeria and bring peace to the troubled country. Subtlety is not the film's strong suit, and as a result the film seems at times to be a self-parody. Reportedly the first African production to be lensed in color, Freedom benefits from the cinematographic expertise of Scandinavia's Richard Taegstrom and Aimo Jaederman. The film was enthusiastically received at the Berlin festival, but fared less well when released internationally.
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Cast & Crew.
Manasseh Moerane
Writer
Ifoghale I. Amata
Writer
Abay-Ifaa Karbo
Writer
Hannen Foss
Director
Vernon Messenger
Director
Aimo Jäderholm
Cinematographer
Rickard Tegström
Cinematographer
Details.
This Movie Is About.
africa
nigeria
british colonialism
Wiki.
Freedom is a play first performed by an African cast at the Westminster Theatre, London in 1955. It is set in an imaginary West African country, Bokondo, under colonial rule, and concerns a nationalist independence movement.
The play was filmed in 1956 in Nigeria, with a large cast. The film's premiere was in Los Angeles, in February 1957.