“Night Train” is the 55 minute documentary feature that brings to light the dark side of the “iron road” – the railway line built by President Paul Kruger from Johannesburg to Lorenzo Marques in 1894 – and the “night trains” that subsequently ferried some 5 million Mozambican migrant workers between 1901 & the 1960s to work the coal & gold fields of the Witwatersrand that built the prosperous industrial economy of South Africa. Captured & interned during the Second Boer War, twenty-five-year-old Winston Churchill was another to have a memorable journey via the “iron road”. Integral to the soundtrack is the composition “Stimela” – composed & performed by the late great South African musician Hugh Masekela – evocatively capturing the enduring memory and trauma of journeys on steam-trains such as the “Night Train” – that chiseled their way into the souls of black men and women across Southern Africa. Musician and mining engineer David Marks takes us into the depths of the underground world experienced night & day by mineworkers & his three compositions “Number not a Name”, “Master Jack” and “Mountains of Men” provide emotive dimensions to the narrative structure and soundtrack.

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