The Boy Kumasenu ni filime yasohotse muri 1952 yakorewe muri Gana n'abakozi ba firime yo mu Bwongereza[1]. Yakozwe kandi iyobowe na Sean Graham uhereye ku nyandiko ya Graham na John Wyllie. Amanota yari Elisabeth Lutyens [2]. Filime yamenyekanye kandi igira ingaruka mubuzima rusange bwabaturage. Yagaragaje ibimenyetso by'ejo hazaza byatumye bijyana no kurwanya ubukoloni n'impinduka mu mibereho mu bwigenge bushya bwa Gana[3].

Umusaruro

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The Boy Kumasenu yari filime ya mbere yagaragaye yakozwe na Gold Coast Film Unit, yashakaga gukora film zombi zigisha kandi zitanga amakuru kugirango zikwirakwizwe muri Gana ndetse no mumahanga[4]. Uyu muyobozi yari Sean Graham, wari umunyeshuri w’umwanditsi w’inyandiko John Grierson, nubwo Graham yahisemo gukora cyane mu mvugo ya sinema izwi. [5] Umucuranzi Guy Warren yari umwe mu bakinnyi, yakinnye nka Yeboah[6].

Yafashwe amashusho mu 1950 na 1951 i Accra, Kedze na Keta , hamwe nabakinnyi batabigize umwuga, ikorerwa i Londres.[7] Yerekanwe bwa mbere muri Gana mu 1952 ariko abayikoze bagize ikibazo cyo kuyikwirakwiza muri Gana, kubera imyizerere y’uko Abanyafurika bakunda filime zo guhunga[8]. Ariko, byaje kugaragara ko ikunzwe cyane. Yahawe impamyabumenyi n'Iserukiramuco rya Filime rya Venice kandi ryerekanwe bwa mbere mu Bwongereza mu iserukiramuco rya sinema rya Edinburgh 1952; yerekanwe no mu iserukiramuco rya sinema rya Berlin 1953. [9] Yatorewe igihembo cya Filime y'Ubwongereza ya Filime ya Filime nziza mu 1953[10].

Umugambi

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Iyi filime ivuga amateka y’umuhungu witwa Kumasenu wimukiye mu mujyi wa Accra avuye mu mudugudu muto w’uburobyi, yatewe inkunga na mubyara we Agboh imigani ikabije y’ibitangaza byo mu mujyi. Ashonje[11], yiba umugati afatwa n'abapolisi, ariko arokorwa na muganga n'umugore we basanga akora. Agboh agerageza kwiba Kumasenu muganga, ariko Kumasenu yanga imigambi ya mubyara we.[12]

references

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  1. http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/332
  2. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533952.2013.852826
  3. https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film312612.html
  4. https://letterboxd.com/film/the-boy-kumasenu/
  5. https://mubi.com/films/the-boy-kumasenu
  6. https://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=35262339X
  7. http://www.films101.com/16239.htm
  8. http://www.films101.com/16239.htm
  9. https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/8661/
  10. "Archive copy". Archived from the original on 2021-11-12. Retrieved 2021-11-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. https://www.senscritique.com/film/The_Boy_Kumasenu/43517033
  12. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cinema-and-Highlife-in-the-Gold-Coast%3A-The-Boy-Sandon/2ef051719a5955a55edccb6fb542f6ba2020f3ee