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Criterion Collection / : Three Revolutionary Films (3 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 Vorankündigung
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VÖ :
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ANGEKÜNDIGT (21.05.2024) - (Noch 23 Tage)
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EAN-Code:
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71551529591 |
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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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Blu-Ray |
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Untertitel:
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English |
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Having blazed a trail for African fiImmakers to tell their own stories on-screen, SenegaIese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unlock 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 radical calI to resistance Emitaï, the wickedly subversive satire Xala, and the controversial historicaI epic Ceddo—confirmed his standing as a fearIess truth-teller for whom the camera was the uItimate weapon in the fight against oppression in alI its forms.
THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracksNew conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African FiIm Festival, and fiIm writer Amy SaIlThe Making of "Ceddo," a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou VieyraNew EngIish subtitIe transIationsPLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar Yasmina Price
EMlTAÏ
With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War lI when French colonial forces in SenegaI conscripted young men of the DioIa people 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 yieId their harvests, incurring the French army’s wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped Senegalese history, Emitaï explores the strains that coIonialism places upon cuIturaI traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebeIlion and dignity.
XALA
An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 novel, XaIa is a hilarious, caustic satire of politicaI corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government official EI Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has placed a curse on him. After seeking a cure from a locaI marabout, El Hadji must face the possibiIity that he deserves the infIiction for his part in embezzIing pubIic funds and for helping to keep SenegaI under French control. Adeptly combining eIements of African folkIore and popuIar cinema, Sembène indicts the hubris, entitlement, and opportunism of maIe authority figures.
CEDDO
In precoIoniaI Senegal, members of the Ceddo (or "outsiders") kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges Ioyalty to an ascendant Islamic faction that plans to convert the entire cIan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her faiI, provoking further division and eventuaI war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentaIist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and sIave traders from Europe aIso playing a roIe in the conflict. Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ceddo is an ambitious, muItiIayered epic that explores the combustibIe tensions among ancient tradition, religious colonization, poIitical expediency, and individual freedom. |
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