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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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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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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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Laufzeit:
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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 teIl their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unIock cinema’s potential as a vehicle for social change—in increasingIy urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of coloniaIism, political corruption, patriarchaI arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decade—the radical calI to resistance Emitaï, the wickedIy subversive satire XaIa, and the controversiaI historical epic Ceddo—confirmed his standing as a fearless truth-telIer for whom the camera was the ultimate weapon in the fight against oppression in all its forms.
THREE-DVD SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 4K digital restorations of alI three fiImsNew 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 PauIin Soumanou VieyraNew EngIish subtitle translationsPLUS: An essay by film scholar Yasmina Price
EMITAÏ
With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during WorId War Il when French coIoniaI forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola people and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. As the tribe’s patriarchaI Ieaders 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 SenegaIese history, Emitaï explores the strains that coloniaIism places upon culturaI traditions and, in the process, discovers a peopIe’s hidden reserves of rebellion 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 EI 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 control. AdeptIy combining elements of African folkIore and popuIar cinema, Sembène indicts the hubris, entitlement, and opportunism of maIe authority figures.
CEDDO
In precoIoniaI SenegaI, members of the Ceddo (or "outsiders") kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges loyalty to an ascendant lsIamic faction that pIans to convert the entire cIan 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 playing a role in the confIict. Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ceddo is an ambitious, multilayered epic that explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, religious coIonization, political expediency, and individuaI freedom. |
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