• Director(s):

    KLEIN (WILLIAM)

  • Producer(s):

    KLEIN (WILLIAM)

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    1970

  • Language(s):

    English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

In 1969 in Algiers, now become the "Mecca of revolutionaries", William Klein put together this portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Information Minister" of the Black Panther movement. An insider eye on this revolutionary movement that has made history.

Cleaver, who at this time was wanted by the American police, was in exile in Algiers. He was keen to specify that Black Panther was a social and revolutionary movement, and not a racial movement. Despite Cleaver's long tirades, this film is not conceived on an ideological level, but rather etches for us the portrait of a romantic revolutionary, a Victor Hugo-style poet of the black cause. A note of lyricism is brought to Eldridge Cleaver's character by the fact of his exile.