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Sudanese Film Group

Hunting Party

42m

Directed by Ibrahim Shaddad • 1964 • East Germany
Starring Ambroise Ruzidana, Petra Hinze, Günter Meier

One of the defining works of the Sudanese Film Group adopts (and subverts) the form of a Hollywood western as it follows a Black man on the run from a band of white vigilantes.

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