The March (1990 film)
- Malick Bowens: Isa El -Mahdi
- Juliet Stevenson: Clare Fitzgerald
- Joseph Mydell: Marcus Brown
- Dermot Crowley: Roy Cox
- Jean -Claude Bouillon: J. M. Limonier
- Sverre Anker Ousdal: Tom Epps
The march is a British television drama from the year 1990. The film directed by David Wheatley about the pressure to emigrate from developing countries is a literary adaptation, based on a novel by William Nicholson. He starts with an indeterminate future in which large parts of Africa due to climate change have become uninhabitable and have increased racial tensions in Europe.
Action
Main characters are the Irishwoman Clare Fitzgerald, Commissioner for Development at the European Community, and the North Africans Isa el Mahdi, who organized a march from North African refugee camps to Europe. His hope in organizing this march: "We believe, if you have us see before you, you will not let us die. That is why we come to Europe. If you do not help us, then we can do nothing, we will die, and you will see how we die and may God be merciful to us all. "
The Commissioner is committed to promoting a negotiated solution, but it fails in the various committees. In conclusion, she explains: "We need you as you need us. We can not go on as before. You can help us stop the destruction that we wreak. But we are not yet ready for you, you have to give us more time. "
The final image shows the jubilant participants in the march, which have overcome the strait to on the way to the waiting Spanish soldiers. ( Previously, it has been shown that a boy was shot at landing. )
The film is a plea for more use of the industrialized countries to developing countries, while it retains essentially the perspective of the benevolent Commissioner. The protesting black Africans are viewed from outside.
Criticism
" Lavishly produced TV movie about a case of ecological migration of peoples "; despite folkloric deposits and a dramaturgy that would rather entertain a rethink value "scenario.