THE FIRE, A FOWL AND AN (UN)FORGOTTEN PAST
SYNOPSIS
Present-day glimpses of a journey into the past: from 1884 to 1914, a small belt of land between the British Gold Coast Colony and French-dominated Dahomey was part of the German colonial empire. "Togoland", the later Togo and the eastern part of today's Ghana, experienced the first German capitulation in the early days of WWI.
European rule left its marks on people's minds, even more than a century after the forced pull-out of one of the major European players in the competitive "great colonial game" and more than half a century after the African Independences.
CREW
Director: Jürgen Ellinghaus
Writer: Jürgen Ellinghaus
Producer: Jürgen Ellinghaus
GERMAN
Jürgen Ellinghaus
Born in 1956. German national. 1985-1997, freelance work and author/producer for German and French public radio companies. 1995-2004, documentary program manager for public and private TV companies in France and Germany. Since 2004, independent documentary filmmaker. Since 2020, programmer, documentary S-VOD platform Tënk / Tënk Europe.
