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Bookmark this pageBim (1974)
Director: Hugh A Robertson
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From Time Out Film Guide
Set in colonial Trinidad of the '40s, and using the racial conflict between Indian sugar-cutters and black Trinidadians as the dramatic spring (centred on a Harder They Come-type fugitive outlaw protagonist), Bim continually throws up intriguing facets of the social texture. Best is the casual acceptance of violence (if not fear or pain) as a fact of life; worst is the treatment of the avuncular British godparents of independence, looking for all the world as if there were no past of colonial exploitation to answer for.Author: RM
Cast & crew
Director: Hugh A Robertson
Producer: Hugh A Robertson
Cast: Ralph J Maharaj, Anand Maharaj, Hamilton Parris, Wilbert Holder, Joseph Gilbert, Anna Seeratan full cast
Duration: 102 mins
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