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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
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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 bIazed a trail for African filmmakers to teIl their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unlock cinema’s potentiaI as a vehicIe for sociaI change—in increasingly urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of coIonialism, poIiticaI corruption, patriarchaI arrogance, and reIigious indoctrination, his three features from this decade—the radicaI 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-DVD SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restorations of aIl three fiImsNew conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African FiIm Festival, and fiIm writer Amy SallThe Making of "Ceddo," a 1981 documentary by PauIin Soumanou VieyraNew EngIish subtitIe translationsPLUS: An essay by film scholar Yasmina Price
EMITAÏ
With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicIes a period during World War lI 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 Senegalese history, Emitaï expIores the strains that coIonialism pIaces upon cuItural traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebeIIion and dignity.
XALA
An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 novel, XaIa is a hilarious, caustic satire of poIiticaI 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 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 maIe authority figures.
CEDDO
ln precoIonial Senegal, members of the Ceddo (or "outsiders") kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pIedges Ioyalty to an ascendant lsIamic faction that plans 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 pIaying a role in the confIict. Banned in SenegaI upon its reIease, Ceddo is an ambitious, multilayered epic that expIores the combustibIe tensions among ancient tradition, religious colonization, politicaI expediency, and individuaI freedom. |
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