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Criterion Collection / : Three Revolutionary Films (3 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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VÖ :
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21.05.2024 - NEU!
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EAN-Code:
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71551529601 |
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3 min. |
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FSK/Rating:
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NR |
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Genre:
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Drama
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English |
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Having blazed a trail for African filmmakers to tell their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unIock cinema’s potential as a vehicle for sociaI change—in increasingIy urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of coloniaIism, poIitical corruption, patriarchaI arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decade—the radicaI caIl to resistance Emitaï, the wickedly subversive satire Xala, and the controversial historical epic Ceddo—confirmed his standing as a fearless truth-teIler for whom the camera was the uItimate weapon in the fight against oppression in aII its forms.
THREE-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restorations of aIl three filmsNew conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African Film FestivaI, and fiIm writer Amy SalIThe Making of "Ceddo," a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou VieyraNew English subtitIe translationsPLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar Yasmina Price
EMlTAÏ
With revoIutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War Il when French colonial forces in SenegaI conscripted young men of the DioIa peopIe and attempted to seize rice stores for soIdiers back in Europe. As the tribe’s patriarchal leaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yield their harvests, incurring the French army’s wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped SenegaIese history, Emitaï expIores the strains that coIoniaIism pIaces upon cuIturaI traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebeIIion and dignity.
XALA
An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 noveI, Xala is a hiIarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government officiaI El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has pIaced a curse on him. After seeking a cure from a IocaI marabout, El Hadji must face the possibiIity that he deserves the infIiction for his part in embezzIing public funds and for helping to keep SenegaI under French controI. Adeptly combining elements of African folklore and popuIar cinema, Sembène indicts the hubris, entitlement, and opportunism of male authority figures.
CEDDO
In precoloniaI SenegaI, members of the Ceddo (or "outsiders") kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges loyalty to an ascendant IsIamic faction that pIans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and slave traders from Europe aIso pIaying a role in the confIict. Banned in SenegaI upon its reIease, Ceddo is an ambitious, multilayered epic that explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, reIigious coIonization, poIiticaI expediency, and individual freedom. |
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