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Safari (2001)

Name: Safari
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-03-18T10:29:23+01:00

Documentary | 60 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 60 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Jack Janssen

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Safari plot

As a child, director Jack Janssen saw films his father had made in Kenya and knew he wanted to go there. He uses these silent hand-held 8mm images of elephants, rhinoceroses and lions alongside his own shots of Amboseli National Park - clear images with great eye for the vastness of the landscape and the attitude and clothing of the local Masai warriors . The leading role is played by 'the professor', a Masai who, as a safari supervisor in a three-piece suit but with the typical stretched earlobes, unites the old and the new in himself. The role of white visitors has changed; what in the images of Janssen's father still seems like a romantic visit, has now become an sometimes embarrassing tourism.