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Flame

1996

During the 1970s liberation war in what was then Rhodesia, two young women leave their village to join the guerrilla fighters, taking new names and confronting both the brutality of the enemy and the hard realities within the struggle. A landmark Zimbabwean war drama.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Zimbabwe

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