The Revolution Devours Its Children!

The film questions the Western export of ideas and values "to Africa" and turns this perspective around. Christoph Schlingensief has expressed his special relationship to Burkina Faso with the idea of the opera village. He coined the credo "to learn from Africa". We ask: can we learn revolution? The film shows the main character's longing for political utopias and at the same time her delusion of not wanting to let go of the threads of world history, the ignominy of not seeing herself in the centre of events. For me, this describes a painful contradiction: if world history is written outside the Eurocentric space of thought, can we bear it?