Savages: The Story of Human Zoos
DirectorsPascal Blanchard, Bruno Victor-Pujebet
“The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism”
For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animals in zoos; a shameful, outrageous and savage treatment of people who were considered subhuman.
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Cast
Abd Al Malik
Self - Narrator (voice)
Lilian Thuram
Self - Anti-racism Activist
Pascal Blanchard
Self - Historian
Sandrine Lemaire
Self - Historian
John M. MacKenzie
Self - Historian
Nicolas Bancel
Self - Historian
Jacob Cassady
Self - Museum Director
Fanny Robles
Self - Historian
Walter Palm Island
Self - Aboriginal Activist
Achille Mbembe
Self - Historian
Félix Tiouka
Self - Amerindian Activist
Gilles Boëtsch
Self - Anthropobiologist
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