Lucy's Revenge

Lucy's Revenge

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 17, 1998

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Comedy

Original Title

La revanche de Lucy

Production Companies

Direction de la Cinematographie Nationale

Director

Janusz Mrozowski

Description

After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he's also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.