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Bushman

1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined – poetic in its approach to real events.

Top Cast

  • Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam

    Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam

    Gabriel/Bushman

  • Elaine Featherstone

    Elaine Featherstone

    Alma

  • Mike Slye

    Mike Slye

    Motorcyclist

  • Lothario Lotho

    Lothario Lotho

    Alma’s brother

  • Jack Nance

    Jack Nance

    Felix

  • Patrick Gleeson

    Patrick Gleeson

    Marty

  • Donna Michelson

    Donna Michelson

    Diane

  • Ann Scofield

    Ann Scofield

    White Girl

  • James Earl Garrison

    James Earl Garrison

    Friend

Overview

1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined – poetic in its approach to real events.

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