This magnificent cake! (DVD)/ Quinzaine 50 des réalisateurs, Société des réalisateurs de films Cannes, New Europe Film Sales, Flandriens of animation, Beast Animation, Vivement Lundi!, Pedri Animation présentent ; écrit et réalisé par Marc James Roels & Emma De Swaef ; produit par Ben Tesseur, Steven de Beul [and 7 others].
Container of (work): Oh Willy. Container of (work): Burden.
Notes:
Title from opening screens. Originally released as a motion picture in 2018. Widescreen. Bonus features: Oh Willy (17 min.), written and directed by Marc James Roels & Emma De Swaef ; The Burden (a short film by Niki Lindroth von Bahr) (15 min.) ; A conversation with Marc James Roels ; Behind-the-scenes gallery ; Trailers. Jan Decleir, Paul Huvenne, Bruno Levie.
Summary:
In the late nineteenth century King Leopold II of Belgium proclaimed, 'I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake.' The subsequent occupation of the Congo would come to attract a contingent of servants, merchants, and miscellaneous bourgeois driven by everything from insatiable greed to existential fear. From the intimate stories of these characters, many of whom pass through a luxury hotel in the middle of the jungle, emerges a greater narrative.
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