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Mister Johnson

1990

In 1923 colonial Nigeria, an educated, irrepressibly optimistic African clerk who considers himself English and works for a British magistrate finds himself belonging to neither world, in a story that ends in tragedy. Bruce Beresford's poignant drama.

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