Cinema
L'Accident
Benoît Ramampy · 1972
Synopsis
On the road to Ivato, the son of a rich man knocks down a young peasant, a father of a family, with his car. The man dies of his injuries and leaves his family grief-stricken and without resources. From this news item, the film draws a portrait of Malagasy society, in which the privileges of a protected bourgeoisie are exercised at the expense of a hard-working and exploited population.
Context
The film appeared in 1972, three years after the creation in Antananarivo of a public centre responsible for producing educational films and documentaries, where most of the directors of that generation were trained on the spot. For the two months of shooting, the French institutions lent a camera brought from Paris. It is the first fiction film by its author, whom the island's filmmakers regard as the father of Malagasy fiction, and others followed from 1973. It runs twenty-nine minutes, thirty-five in its Malagasy version, in black and white; the association FL@h restored it in 2015. Malagasy chronologies date it to 1972, the work of Karine Blanchon to 1973.
Who it is for
A fiction short film, in black and white, of twenty-nine or thirty-five minutes depending on the version; restored, it appears in a box set of eleven Malagasy films.
Prizes and reception
Prize for best short film at the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou in 1973; the Malagasy press sees it as a jewel of its cinema, long overlooked by the public.
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