Germany / 1964 / 42mins / Drama / German

Made as a graduation project at the German Academy of Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Shaddad’s seminal film is a Western-inspired treatise on racism. Shot in a forest in Brandenburg, it portrays a white mob’s hunt for a black farmworker.

Ibrahim Shaddad

Ibrahim Shaddad, born in Halfa, Sudan in 1945, studied filmmaking at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (at that time Academy for Film and Television of the GDR). He graduated in 1964. Over the course of his career, he has made many medium length and short films, among which are Hunting Party (1964) and The Rope (1984). Several of his projects have been banned by the various governments in Sudan. He spent years in exile in Egypt and Canada before returning to Sudan. His love of cinema is deep and his vision of art is radical. Learn More