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==The film==
 
==The film==
  
A short foilm about the Xhosa prophetess [[Nongqawuse]] and the 1856-7 cattle-killing. The description in the online catalogue of  ''Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire''[http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/1541] says: "Members of the Xhosa tribe of South Africa re-enact an old legend in which blind belief in a false prophet leads the tribe to ruin. The commentary draws the parallel with Hitler's Germany."  
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A short film about the [[Xhosa]] prophetess [[Nonquassi]] (today mostly referred to as [[Nongqawuse]]) and the 1856-7 cattle-killing. The description in the online catalogue of  ''Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire''[http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/1541] says: "Members of the Xhosa tribe of South Africa re-enact an old legend in which blind belief in a false prophet leads the tribe to ruin. The commentary draws the parallel with Hitler's Germany."  
  
 
Filmed by [[Leon Schauder]] for Gaumont-British Instructional Films, in their Focus on Empire series, and released in 1939.
 
Filmed by [[Leon Schauder]] for Gaumont-British Instructional Films, in their Focus on Empire series, and released in 1939.
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Latest revision as of 06:47, 19 June 2022

Nonquassi is an English short film by Leon Schauder (1919-1967)

The film

A short film about the Xhosa prophetess Nonquassi (today mostly referred to as Nongqawuse) and the 1856-7 cattle-killing. The description in the online catalogue of Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire[1] says: "Members of the Xhosa tribe of South Africa re-enact an old legend in which blind belief in a false prophet leads the tribe to ruin. The commentary draws the parallel with Hitler's Germany."

Filmed by Leon Schauder for Gaumont-British Instructional Films, in their Focus on Empire series, and released in 1939.

Sources

Sheila Boniface Davies (compiler): 2010. Creative accounts of the Xhosa cattle-killing[2]

http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/1541

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