Documentary

Law of Baseness

Name: Law of Baseness
Director: Aleksandr Medvedkin
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1962-01-01
Duration: 49 min
Cast: Aleksei Zadachin, Patrice Lumumba, Modibo Keïta, Nikita Khrushchev, Roy Welensky

January 1, 1962

49m

Taking the viewer on a tour through several African nations and using the full range of agit-prop aesthetics in its imagery, didactic voice-over and melodramatic soundtrack, Law of Baseness offers a scathing anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist indictment of the Western world.