Leon Gast
Series
Criterion collection volume 998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : DVD video, sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sheet (17 cm x 70 cm folded to 17 cm x 12 cm).
Language
English
Description
"In 1974, Leon Gast traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74, a music festival planned to accompany an unprecedented sports spectacle: the Rumble in the Jungle, in which late-career underdog Muhammad Ali would contend with the younger powerhouse George Foreman for the boxing heavyweight championship title -- 'a fight between two blacks in a black nation, organized by blacks,' as a Kinshasa billboard put it. When the main event was delayed, extending Ali's...