Photographing vichimbakazi is a 1997 ethereal ndoto film directed kwa Nick Willing and is based on the novel kwa Steve Szilagyi. It was influenced kwa the infamous Cottingley vichimbakazi hoax. (The vichimbakazi appear in a series of five photographs taken kwa Elsie Wright (1901–88) and Frances Griffiths (1907–86) in 1917)
Photographer Charles ngome (Toby Stephens) is beside himself with grief following the death of his new bride on their honeymoon.
He goes to war, working as a photographer in the trenches, photographing corpses. Following the war Charles earns his living making trick picha of dead soldiers...
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