End of the Dialogue

End of the Dialogue (Phelandaba) is a 1970 documentary film made by five black South African expatriate members of the Pan-Africanist Congress and London film students who wanted to document Apartheid in South Africa.[1] Because of South Africa's restrictive laws governing what could be photographed, the film had to be shot clandestinely and smuggled out of the country.[2] It was edited and released in England.[3]
The film caused an uproar when it was originally released in 1970. It was released worldwide and also screened on television in many countries, including the U.S., U.K. and New Zealand.[4] The film is valuable as not only a record of history, but also a record of how little the outside world understood about what was happening in apartheid South Africa. The London Observer called it, "the most successful act of clandestine subversion against apartheid for years."[3]

End of the Dialogue (Phelandaba)
Directed byAntonia Caccia, Simon Louvish
Produced byNana Mahomo, Vusumzi Make, Rakhetla Andrew Tsehlana
Production
company
Morena Films
Distributed byIcarus Films
Release date
1970
Running time
44 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Awards

1970 Catholic Film Workers Prize
Golden Dove Award, 1970 Leipzig Film Festival (Germany)
Golden Squirrel Award, Netherlands Film Institute
Inter-Film Jury Prize and the Volkshoch-Schule Jury Prize, 1970 Oberhausen Film Festival (Germany)
1970 Moscow Film Festival
1971 Emmy Award
2003 African Studies Association Conference Film Festival

References
  1. The Road to Democracy in South Africa: Vol 2, South African Democracy Education Trust, Unisa Press.
  2. Feather, Daniel J (19 May 2022). "Creating a 'deplorable impression': the Dryden Society's 1969 tour of South Africa and the making of End of the Dialogue". Contemporary British History: 1–29. doi:10.1080/13619462.2022.2076078. S2CID 248929259.
  3. "End of the Dialogue," Icarus Films (accessed 10 February 2017).
  4. "Parliamentary Debates," New Zealand Parliament House of Representatives, p3358.


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