Under the Hanging Tree

A policewoman investigates a murder in a small desert town in Namibia. She is uncomfortable before the cattle carcasses scattered on the property of a German. And when farmer Gustav Fischer is found hanged from an old Omumborombonga tree, and his wife Eva remains impassive, the policewoman has to find ways of understanding things that go beyond the rational ...

A surprising film noir that evokes the genocide of the Hereros by the Germans at the beginning of the last century. Divided in distinct chapters, the thriller slowly slides into horror, revealing morbid facets of the history of this colonisation. Pointing out the new generation little affected by its own past, Perivi Katjavivi delivers a work somewhere between genre cinema and historical pamphlet.

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