White Elephant

White Elephant (1984)

An amusing and well-founded semi-documentary about the resistance of the black continent to imperialistic technocrats

TMDb

0.0

01/01/1984
original-title

White Elephant

status

Released

production-companies

Worldoc Production

original-language

German

budget

-

revenue

-

This film was made entirely in Ghana and consists of documentary scenes and a fictitious story about a British engineer who wants to import microchips to Africa. But the reaction of the blacks to his plans to build a fully automatic plastic furniture factory surprises him. His faith in technocracy stands opposed to what they know about the environment. When the conflict has reached its climax, a spell is cast upon him... finally, he gives up... but his attitude toward Africa has changed for the better.

production-countries

Ghana

Austria

United Kingdom

spoken-languages

English

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