Movie Details
Original Language:German
Production Companies:Worldoc Production
Cast & Crew
G
Georg Friedrich Händel
Music
T
Tom Hurwitz
Director of Photography
T
Tom Hurwitz
Editor
A
Andy Nelson
Sound
W
Werner Grusch
Director
White Elephant
Movie"An amusing and wellfounded semidocumentary about the resistance of the black continent to imperialistic technocrats"
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
