10:29 mins., b&w, sound – voice-over commentary and titles in Swedish.
Production : Svensk Filmindustri and Nordisk
Source : ?
A film about a remote burial ground in southern Madagascar, final resting place for, amongst others, an Antandroy chief. The carved anthropomorphic images are very arresting and the commentary interesting, but not a single living person appears in the film.
The camerawork is also decidedly inferior to that of other films that Paul Fejos made in Madagascar. Is this perhaps a film that he shot himself rather than rely on Rudolf Frederiksen, the professional cameraman who was with him?
Text : Andersen (2017)