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  2. Law of Baseness

Law of Baseness

Original Title: Закон подлости

1962
49m
Documentary

Status

Released

Release

1962

Runtime

49m

Storyline

Taking the viewer on a tour through several African nations and using the full range of agit-prop aesthetics in its imagery, didactic voice-over and melodramatic soundtrack, Law of Baseness offers a scathing anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist indictment of the Western world.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
49m
Jan 1, 1962
Languages
Russian
Director
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Production
Central Studio of Documentary Films
Central Studio of Documentary Films
Production Countries
Soviet Union

Top Cast

5 Cast Members

Aleksei Zadachin

Aleksei Zadachin

Narrator (voice)

Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba

Modibo Keïta

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

Roy Welensky

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