RETURN OF A PRESIDENT (F/F)
(2017)
1 hour 18 minutes
TBA
2017-01-06
documentary
In 2009 Madagascar’s democratically-elected president, the popular businessman Marc Ravalomanana, was ousted from power following a bloody military coup. In a fascinating geopolitical drama, Danish filmmaker Mik-Meyer closely follows Ravalomanana as he attempts to return from exile in South Africa to Madagascar, under the threat of arrest and bodily harm. With fly-on-the-wall access to Ravalomanana’s legal, business and PR teams – and investigative interviews with the president and his family – Mik-Meyer conducts an intriguing study of the politics of a country on the imaginary and physical peripheries of Africa, of the insidious nature of French neo-colonial interests, and of the self-sacrifice that true leadership requires.
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RETURN OF A PRESIDENT (F/F)