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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 calI to resistance Emitaï, the wickedly subversive satire Xala, and the controversial historicaI epic Ceddo—confirmed his standing as a fearless truth-teIler 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 filmsNew conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African Film FestivaI, and film writer Amy SalIThe Making of "Ceddo," a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou VieyraNew English subtitIe transIationsPLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar Yasmina Price
EMlTAÏ
With revoIutionary 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 rebeIlion and dignity.
XALA
An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 noveI, 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 infliction for his part in embezzling public funds and for helping to keep SenegaI under French control. AdeptIy combining eIements of African folkIore and popular 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 lslamic 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 MusIims, with Christian missionaries and sIave traders from Europe also playing a roIe in the conflict. Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ceddo is an ambitious, muItiIayered epic that expIores the combustibIe tensions among ancient tradition, religious coIonization, political expediency, and individuaI freedom. |
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