"I AM A BLACK MAN AND I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE WHERE IT IS HOT, IN THE COUNTRY WHERE I WAS BORN. I COULD NOT BEAR ONE MORE WINTER HERE"
(Jean Bedel Bokassa)

French, German
93 minutes, 16 mm, colour
1990

Director: Werner Herzog
Special Advisor: Michael Goldsmith
Production Manager: Walter Saxer
Director of Photography: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Rainer Standke
2nd Camera Unit: Martin Manz
Assistant Editor: Thomas Balkenkol

Original Title: ECHOES FROM A SOMBRE EMPIRE - BOKASSA
Other Title: ECHOS AUS EINEM DÜSTEREN REICH

Original Screenplay: Werner Herzog
Year of production: 1990
Duration: 93 min.
Length: 1100 m
Format: 16 mm
Original language version: English, French
Colour - b/w: colour
Location: Central Afrika
Music : Michael Kreihsl
Production Company: SERA Filmproduktion
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Co-Producers: Films Sans Frontières
Laboratory: ARRI, Munich
Festivals: Venice 1990

DISTRIBUTION
World: Cine International
Available Formats: 35/16mm, Video