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Kukurantumi - Road to Accra   [Original Title]

Land: GH,GW
Produktionsjahr: 1983
Genre: Feature Film
Drehort: Ghana, Accra

Credits:
Actor: George Wilson
  Evans Oma
  Amy Appiah
  David Dontoh
  Ernest Youngman
Set design: Charies Ansong
  Kobina Smith
Production company: Afromovies
Production manager: Peter Wohlgemuth-Reinery
Screenplay: King Boama Darko Ampaw
  Ralf Franz
Director: King Boama Darko Ampaw
Editing: Anja Cox
  Michèle Bahlke
Director of photography: Eckhard Dorn
  Kofi Amos
Music: Amartey Hedzoleh
  Fela Ransam Kuti
Sound: Winfried Bornschein


Schlagwörter: Afrika, Ghana, Identiät, Landflucht, Moderne, Stadt
In this revealing African comedy-drama that contrasts the hectic life in Accra, the capital of Ghana, with the relative peace of Kukurantumi, a rural town, a truck driver makes runs between the two locations with few problems until he is forced to replace his truck. In order to raise the money to get a new vehicle, he sells some stolen watches and promises his daughter in marriage to a rich merchant. Rebelling against this fate, the daughter runs off to Accra with her boyfriend -- but then nothing turns out quite like she had planned, and the rich merchant looks better with each passing day.

(http://www.africanfilm.com/Road_to_Accra.html)

"Kukurantumi: the Road to Accra"a co-production of Ghana and West Germany, is a comparatively lively, good-humored film about a very sad subject - the breakdown of family relationships under the pressures of what's called progress. The film is the first feature to be directed by King Ampaw, a Ghana film maker trained in West Germany and Austria and now a director with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.

The screenplay, by Mr. Ampaw and two German writers, is about Addey, a hard-working family man who makes his living driving a lorry between Accra, the capital, and his small village of Kukurantumi, which, in a local dialect, means ''the place where everything is too heavy to pick up.'' When he is dismissed from his job for reasons beyond his control, Addey arranges a marriage between his pretty daughter, Abena, and a rich, middle-aged businessman she doesn't love. Abena rebels and, with Bob, the poor young man she loves, runs off to Accra where things go from bad to worse. Though its story is not a happy one, the film contains a good deal of rambunctious humor. The performances are awkward but also refreshingly straightforward, without guile.

by Vincent Canby, The New York Times April 1, 1984

Version 1
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Ton: 2-Doppelzacken (Lichtton)
Bildformat: 1:1,33
Dauer: 83 min

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Version 2
Sprache: n/a
Ton: 2-Doppelzacken (Lichtton)
Bildformat: 1:1,33
Dauer: 83 min

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