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Tabataba

1989

In a small Malagasy village during the 1947 uprising against French colonial rule, a boy watches as rumor, fear, and the fever for independence sweep through his community. A poetic, understated drama of a nation's awakening.

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Part of 6 Essential Films from Madagascar

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