«Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony» shows how music was used in the fight for freedom. In the South African liberation struggle against apartheid, it was not least the songs that united those who were being oppressed and gave those fighting a way to express their plight. The music also consoled the incarcerated people and created a form of communication inside the prisons. When the first victims of apartheid brutality died protesting against the pass laws in the 1960s, they were singing. When innocent students were fired on by police with live ammunition during their protest against the use of Afrikaans in black schools in 1976, they were singing, too.
Amandla! is an impassioned chronicle of the role of music as a mean of protest and survival through more than 40 years of struggle against racial oppression. "The apartheid government took everything away from people, but it couldn’t stop them from singing", says director Lee Hirsch. In the songs there could even be found a rare ability of South Africa's people to find humour and creativity in impossible conditions, in abject poverty - and in battle.
| Original Title | Amandla! |
|---|---|
| German Title | Amandla! |
| French Title | Amandla! |
| Other Titles | Amandla! |
| Directed by | Lee Hirsch |
| Country | South Africa |
| Available Formats | 35mm, DVD |
| Screenplay | Lee Hirsch |
| Film Editing | Johanna Demetrakas |
| Soundtrack | Miriam Makeba, Vusi Mahlasela, u.v.a. |
| Cinematography | Clive Sacke, Ivan Leathers, Brand Jordan |
| Production | Lee Hirsch, Sherry Simpson |
| Runtime | 103 Min. |
| Language | Afrikaans, Englisch/d/f |
| Actors |
Festival de Sundance, prix du public et
prix de la liberté d'expression
Telluride Filmfestival, meilleur film
Prix de la critique, Sydney
Best documentery, St. Louis Festival
Best South-African Film, Johannesburg
Musik/musique:
Miriam Makeba
Vusi Mahlasela
Marianne Kaplin
Mbongeni Ngema
Abdullah Ibrahim
Hugh Masekela
Nancy Jacobs and Sisters
Zwai Bala & TKZee
Tananas
Bongo Maffin
Sophie Mgcina
Lindiwe
Sibongile Khumalo
Amandla Group
Sibusiso Nxumall
The Militants
Mzwakhe Mbuli
Bongo Maffin
Sipho Mabuse
Sibongile Khumalo
Joe Nina
und andere mehr
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