Ernest Cole – Lost and Found (Aus der Reihe "24FPS – Fotografie im Film")

In Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, Raoul Peck tells the moving story of South African photographer Ernest Cole (1940-1990), whose artistic estate, consisting of 60,000 photo negatives, was discovered in a Swedish bank safe in 2017. Cole's 1967 photo book "House of Bondage" made the world aware of the racist reality in his home country, but he was forgotten in the 1980s and died in New York in 1990 at the age of just 49. With Cole's recovered images and texts, Peck reconstructs the life of a committed and pioneering artist whose work is animated by anger at the silence in the face of the horrors of the apartheid regime.

Awarded the prize for Best Documentary in Cannes.

"The rediscovery of the fearless photographer who captured South African apartheid with his images!"
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"A deeply moving work!"
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"One politically conscious artist's response to another's call!"
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France/USA 2024, 106 min, English-French original version with German subtitles | FSK: 12
Director: Raoul Peck | Screenplay: Ernest Cole, Raoul Peck | Producer:inside: Raoul Peck, Tamara Rosenberg
Distributor: Salzgeber