Kukurantumi- Road to Accra
‘Kukurantumi – Road to Accra’, a film shot in 1983 and directed by King Ampaw, will on Thursday, September 5, 2019, be screened at the Goethe-Institut in Accra.
A revealing African comedy/ drama, it contrasts the hectic life in Accra with the relative peace of Kukurantumi, which is located in the Eastern Region.
A truck driver plies his trade between the two locations with few problems until he is forced to replace his truck. In order to raise the money to get a new vehicle, he sells stolen watches and promises a rich merchant to offer her daughter for marriage.
Although the story is not glorious, it nevertheless contains a good deal of boisterous humour with refreshingly forthright performances.
The film equally highlights on the creativity of Ghanaian filmmakers in the 1980s. Born in Kukurantumi, Ampaw attended the Academy of Film in Potsdam, (Germany), Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Austria) and the Academy of Television and Film at the Munich University (Germany), where he studied with acclaimed film makers Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders.
He graduated as a film director with his first film, ‘They Call It Love’, before returning to Ghana where he became a senior film director at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation from 1979 to 1982 before leaving to form his own film company, Afromovies Limited.