There is a moment in this film in which young cadre (teenagers, if that) patiently explain how they have traveled great distances to an experimental educational farm to plant and learn about agricultural technology. They install the first mechanical water pump in the entire liberated territory. Seeing the water stream out into the seedlings in the field, I nearly wept!
This film, like other cultural works from the height of Third Worldism, is both an example of the powerful function…
