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Greetings from the colony

  • Bons baisers de la Colonie
Genre : Biography
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2011
Format : Feature
Running time : 74 (in minutes)
http://www.cvb-videp.be/cvb/fr/catalogue/film/id/182

The daughter of a Belgian agent and a Rwandan woman, Suzanne was born in 1926. At the age of 4, her father takes her away from Africa to give her a European education. She is a "mulatto child saved from a negro destiny".
Suzanne's father is also the director's grandfather, who discovered only at 27 that she had a mixed race aunt. The family story intersects with the bigger colonial history…


A film by Nathalie Borgers

Belgium/France, 2011, Betacam SP - Colour - Documentary, 1h14 min

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