Film: Cobra Verde

Part of the series Memory in Motion

Werner Herzog's adaptation of Bruce Chatwin's "The Victory of Ouidah" tells the historically valid (although literarily and cinematographically manipulated) story of Brazilian slave-trader Francisco Manoel da Silva, who was in close coorporation with the king of Dahomey in the 19th century, and established his own power base in Benin that was built both on violence and hybrid forms of culture.

Cobra Verde
By Werner Herzog (D), with Klaus Kinski
D 1987 – 106‘ – German

The film series takes place within the framework of the seminar „Remembering the Slave Trade: Museums, memorials, films, novels and biography“ (Prof. Dr. Patrick Harries) and the introductory course „Westafrikas Küstenregionen in der Frühen Neuzeit - eine globale Kontaktzone“ (Dr. Roberto Zaugg).

Guest are welcome!

Venue:
Historisches Seminar
Übungsraum 1
Hirschgässlein 21
4051 Basel

Download: Flyer

Info:
roberto.zaugg-at-unibas.ch
patrick.harries-at-unibas.ch 

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