1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined – poetic in its approach to real events.
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Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam
Gabriel/Bushman
Elaine Featherstone
Alma
Mike Slye
Motorcyclist
Lothario Lotho
Alma’s brother
Jack Nance
Felix
Patrick Gleeson
Marty
Donna Michelson
Diane
Ann Scofield
White Girl
James Earl Garrison
Friend
Shezwae Powell
Black Waitress
Timothy Near
Suzie
David Major
Black Friend
Curtis Branch
Curtis Branch
Florence Stanley
Steno Mask
John Dotson
John Dotson
