I found "Siliva Zulu" to be relatively exciting, given it's context. It is easy to be intrigued by the storyline and marvelous African scenery. Essentially, it is a showcase of an old African world exhibited by Italian "explorer" and film maker Attilio Gatti. A simple but exciting love story which many may relate to. Boy loves girl, girl loves boy, other boy gets in the way, devious plots, magic medicine, evil takes on good in this love story set in an old African society. Although, it must be said that there are some racist undertones throughout - Gatti utilised a European, ethnographic operandi to tell his story using the African cast and there is little literature to tell us how the relations between the Africans and Europeans were on set, and so I would advise watching this film with a grain of salt as to what the end goals of this film were. It probably wasn't filmed for an African audience at all, but rather a European one of the 1920s. It was one of the first of the worlds films not to feature any European or American actors on screen. The story encompasses the tropes of "witch-doctors", warriors, romance and a sense of traditional, domestic Zulu life to tell an interesting story. A must see if ever one gets the chance. I viewed most of it at an exhibition in Johannesburg about Gatti's expedition to Africa in the 20s.