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The Hour of Independence
196328 min 10 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Monique Fortier
Production: Fernand DansereauVictor Jobin
Script: Hubert Aquin
From the French-speaking lands of Africa, a film-study of decolonization and the effect it may have on French institutions, culture and language. Commenting on this and other aspects of independence are respected voices of the movement in Africa, members of commissions, and Professor Stanley Hoffman of Harvard.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > AfricaArts and CultureColonization and DecolonizationNorth Africa
- Politics and Government > Colonialism and Independence
- Foreign Countries > France
Credits
- director
- Monique Fortier
- editing
- Monique Fortier
- producer
- Fernand Dansereau
- Victor Jobin
- script
- Hubert Aquin
- photography
- Guy Borremans
- sound
- Joseph Champagne
- sound editing
- Bernard Bordeleau
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- Roger Lamoureux
- animation
- Pierre L'Amare