Name: Voyage au Congo
Director: Marc Allégret
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1927-01-01
Rating: 8

Question 1

What is Voyage au Congo about?

Accepted Answer

Cinema has long fed our fascination with other cultures, and appears to be just one facet of what is a fundamentally visual fascination. One of the most elaborate manifestations of this was the 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris to celebrate ‘la France des 5 continents’. This exhibition sought to represent to the people of France their colonial world by reordering and reconstructing it into scenes or tableaux of everyday indigenous life. This entailed shipping over scores of indigènes and forcing them to act out the gestures of their ‘everyday lives’ under the eyes of 1930’s Parisian society. A slightly less elaborate, although equally controversial at the time, visual representation of The Other was one of the first film documentaries to be made which sought to represent the lives of a colonised people, Marc Allégret’s Voyage au Congo.

Question 2

Who appears in Voyage au Congo?

Accepted Answer

Cast info is available on the title page.

Question 3

What genre is Voyage au Congo?

Accepted Answer

Voyage au Congo is listed under Documentary.

Question 4

How long is Voyage au Congo?

Accepted Answer

Voyage au Congo has a runtime of 100 minutes.

Question 5

What year was Voyage au Congo released?

Accepted Answer

Voyage au Congo was released in 1927.