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Longing For Innocence
GERMANY · 2023

Longing For Innocence

Leni Riefenstahl
cultural anthropology indigenous traditions documentary filmmaking cross-cultural immersion African history
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Synopsis

Between 1963 and 1976, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl spent months living among in the Nuba people in the Kordofan Province of Sudan, documenting their cultural traditions as well as the everyday activities crucial to their very survival.

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