Mugabe and the White African (2010)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 1
As much legal thriller as objective documentary, this account of a farmer's battle with Zimbabwe's regime serves as a powerful and emotional attack upon President Mugabe.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 0
As much legal thriller as objective documentary, this account of a farmer's battle with Zimbabwe's regime serves as a powerful and emotional attack upon President Mugabe.
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Robert Mugabe's rule as president of Zimbabwe has been wildly controversial, with his economic plans generally held responsible for the nation's hyperinflation and massive unemployment, while Mugabe has also been accused of widespread human rights violations. One of Mugabe's most notorious programs has been his policy of seizing farms owned by white Africans and turning them over to individuals affiliated with the Mugabe government; many of these nationalized farms have been put in the hands of
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The result is part legal thriller, part five-hankie melodrama.
Top CriticIn a continent where despotic rule is not uncommon, there is little argument that Mugabe is the most monstrous of rulers.
Bailey and Thompson managed to create a remarkably vivid portrait of a land and its people, while bringing us two unforgettable heroes in Campbell and Freeth.
Compelling true-life story of the legal battle between a white farmer and the repressive Zimbabwean regime.
Many viewers will leave "Mugabe and the White African" thinking that they have seen few, if any, documentaries as wrenching, sad and infuriating, and those feelings will be justified.
The film clandestinely captures marauders in action while embedding itself in the imperiled home of aging farmer Michael Campbell.
Mugabe and the White African fully believes in the humanity and good will of its subjects, and doesn't mind taking a biased point of view to prove their vision is just.
The filmmakers leave massive and sometimes reactionary holes in a film that could easily have pled a more accommodating and sophisticated yet equally airtight case.
The final hearing is the most extraordinary scene in the film.
Mugabe and the White African is cinema-as-journalism at its most aesthetically confident and humanely satisfying.
This portrait of a strident white farmer and his family in Zimbabwe is interesting for its close-up view of life there, but it skips too many details and ends up being morally ambiguous.
This extraordinary profile in courage starkly bears passionate and brave witness as two flinty farmers stand up for their rights in a good vs. evil fight.
Not highlighting the colonized history of Zimbabwe is a huge error for the one-sided doc that at times depicts the Black Zimbabweans as emotionless and racist savages. That said, it's a fearless film but do your own research to be fully informed.
Outrage powers documentary on Zimbabwean injustice
The film serves as a testimony on behalf of all of Mugabe's victims.
[A] gripping documentary.
It excels as a courtroom drama, a tense thriller, a ringing call to arms, and, most of all, as a humbling portrait of the unflappable, indefatigable farmers and their families.
Shot more like a thriller, this powerful documentary follows a white Zimbabwean family as they take on one of the most ruthless dictators in human history. It's both riveting and wrenching, and needs to be seen as far and wide as possible.
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- Mugabe et l'Africain Blanc (FR)
What "Mugabe and the White African" also required was a wider perspective and I think part of the problem does come from the white farmers who have an air of paternalism about them when claiming their indespensability to the local economy, implying that they can do a much better job than any black farmers. And according to a BBC report in 2000, the white population which is 1% of Zimbabwe controlled more than 70% of the arable land. That along with Zimbabwe's extremely racist past allows Mugabe to so successfully play the race card.