Nigeria,
1957
Shown in 1957
CREDITS
- dir
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Marion Anderson
- scr
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Manasseh Moerane, Ifoghale I. Amata, Abay-Ifaa Karbo
- cam
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Aimo Jäderholm, Rickard Tegström
- editor
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Vernon Messenger
- mus
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James W. Owens
- cast
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Manasseh Moerane, Ifoghale Amata
- prod co
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Moral Rearmament Group
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COMMENTS
Ifoghale Amata and Manasseh Moerane attended the Festival. They received a key to the city from Mayor George Christopher.
OTHER
One of the more colorful pictures in the International Film Festival, Freedom, the Moral Re-Armament movie . . . shows how the MRA philosophy influences political developments in an African kingdom. The message of the film is integrated into a story that is acted by a large cast of Africans, most of them engaged in cultural and educational pursuits in their private lives. The color is brilliant and exotic, enhanced by the many-hued costumes of the performers.... Direction and editing of the picture are good, as well as the music by James W. Owens, a composer of Danbury, Connecticut. The direction was by Marion Anderson—a Hollywood film expert. Freedom was first prize winner at the foreign film festival in Lille, France, in October 1957.
—S.F. Call-Bulletin
FACTOID #304
After its U.S. premiere at the 1969 Festival, the print of Z by Costa-Gavras was stolen from the locked projection room of the Masonic Auditorium.
