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Bringing Marius home

  • Retour de Marius (Le)
Genre : Historical
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2011
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 52 (in minutes)

In 1931, the Colonial exposition took place in. A hundred or so Kanaks were recruited When they got to Paris, these men and women were forced to act as ‘ferocious cannibals' for visitors to the Paris Botanical Gardens. One of these men would never come home to his island. His name was Marius Kaloï. Seventy years later Wazapa, his daughetr, repatriate her father's body to his home island in Lifou.

Director: Brigitte Whaap,

Kanaky-New-Caledonia : 2011, 52',

Production : Mémoires Vives Productions, ânûû-rû âboro

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