The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

January. 01,1969

Rating：

6.7

Genre：

Documentary Music

Keywords：

Africa Music Festival Social & Cultural Documentary

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews made to writers and advocates of the freedom movements with stock images, thus allowing him to touch on such matters as colonialism, neocolonialism, colonial exploitation, the struggles and battles of the revolutionary movements for Independence.

Nina Simone as Self

Archie Shepp as Self

Miriam Makeba as Self

Marion Williams as Self

René Depestre as Self

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