Mister Johnson

“Africa 1923: A clash of cultures between British imperalists and a black man too smart for his own good.”

Mister Johnson (Maynard Eziashi) is a Nigerian clerk in a British colonial outpost who dresses like an Englishman and calls himself one, though he has never left Africa. He works for the district officer Harry Rudbeck (Pierce Brosnan) and keeps scheming to get ahead, which gets him into trouble. Bruce Beresford shot on location in Nigeria, and the film is about a man who wants to belong to the people who will not let him.