Film

Cuba - An African Odyssey

Themed Days: Angola, Namibia, South Africa

Fri, Feb 27, 2009
Exhibition Hall 1
8 pm
Free admission

D: Jihan El-Tahri, documentary, France/Egypt 2007, 180 min, English subtitles

Still from the film "Cuba: An African Odyssey"

The film focuses on a hitherto largely neglected aspect of the Cold War period: 300,000 Cubans supported the revolutionary liberation struggles in Africa up to the end of the Cold War, helping the young nations in their fight against their former and new colonial powers. Jihan El-Tahri found these impressive archive recordings of Nelson Mandela and Che Guevara, who operated under the name of Tatu during the Congo mission.