Bushman

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

David Schickele

Writers

David Schickele

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

1 October 1971

Ensemble

Cast

• Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam

  Gabriel/Bushman

• Elaine Featherstone

  Alma

• Mike Slye

  Motorcyclist

• Lothario Lotho

  Alma’s brother

• 

  Jack Nance

  Felix

• Patrick Gleeson

  Marty

• Donna Michelson

  Diane

• Ann Scofield

  White Girl

• James Earl Garrison

  Friend

• Shezwae Powell

  Black Waitress

• Timothy Near

  Suzie

• David Major

  Black Friend