Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

Duration: 14 14 min

Genre: Educational

Creator: Weston Woods

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Mufaro's two daughters are tested unknowningly to reveal which one is worthy enough to marry the king. An iconographic adaptation of the book by John Steptoe. Directed by David R. Paight., Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife.

Complete Record: Mufaro's two daughters are tested unknowningly to reveal which one is worthy enough to marry the king. An iconographic adaptation of the book by John Steptoe. Directed by David R. Paight., In this iconographic adaptation, Mufaro, patriarch of an African village, has two beautiful daughters, the kind and loving Nyasha, and the meanspirited Manyara. When the king announces his desire to find a suitable wife from among his subjects, Manyara resorts to trickery to prevent Nyasha from reaching the king's palace. When Nyasha finally arrives at the royal domain, she discovers that the monarch, having assumed various disguises in order to observe her, covets only her for his wife. Having failed to trick the king into marrying her, the devious Manyara must settle for a life of service to her sister the queen. , Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife. An adaptation of the 1987 book of the same title by John Steptoe., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.