Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance, without the stimulus of dancing, in an attempt to cure her. Sha//ge lives but the baby is stillborn.
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John Marshall Director
United States release January 1, 1969
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English
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United States · January 1, 1969
Theatrical
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