Law of Baseness

Name: Law of Baseness
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1962-01-01
Duration: 49 min
Cast: Aleksei Zadachin, Patrice Lumumba, Modibo Keïta, Nikita Khrushchev, Roy Welensky

1962 · Aleksandr Medvedkin · 49 min

Taking the viewer on a tour through several African nations and using the full range of agit-prop aesthetics in its imagery, didactic voice-over and melodramatic soundtrack, Law of Baseness offers a scathing anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist indictment of the Western world.

Aleksei ZadachinNarrator (voice)

Patrice Lumumba Modibo Keïta

Nikita Khrushchev Roy Welensky

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