President Review: Camilla Nielsson s Extraordinary Documentary Traces the Alleged Theft of an Election President Review: Camilla Nielsson s Extraordinary Documentary Traces the Alleged Theft of an Election
The Danish docmaker follows up 2014 s Democrats with another essential chapter in Zimbabwe s long, endlessly sidetracked road to democracy.
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“Democrats,” Camilla Nielsson’s superb 2014 documentary about the tortuous construction of Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution, was most riveting as a snapshot of a country still trying democracy on for size, wary of what it saw in the mirror. Studying the troubled coalition government that paired president Robert Mugabe’s long-ruling ZANU-PF party with the more liberal opposition of Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, Nielsson’s film posited any progress at all as fragile, easily undone by a volatile political system: Audiences might