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Titre :
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Mandabi
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Auteurs :
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Ousmane Sembene
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Type de document :
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vidéo
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Editeur :
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New Yorker Video, 2005
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Format :
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90 min.
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Note générale :
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In Wolof and French with English subtitles / movie released in 1968-
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Langues:
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Français
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Index. décimale :
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F-DVD (Films)
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Catégories :
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Afrique / Africa
Argent / Money
Confiance / Trust
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Résumé :
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Like many men in late-1960s Dakar, Ibrahima Dieng (Makhouredia Gueye) has been without a job for years. With nine mouths to feed--two wives and seven children--he could use a break. One day, he receives a letter from his nephew Abdou in Paris. Enclosed is a mandabi, or money order, for 25,000 francs. The funds are to be divided between several family members. Trying to cash it, however, quickly becomes a comedy of errors. First, Dieng needs to secure an identity card, then a birth certificate, and so forth (the fact that he can't read certainly doesn't help). Meanwhile, word has been spreading about his good fortune and everyone wants a piece. Ousmane Sembene's follow-up to Black Girl--and first in the Wolof dialect--uses humor to depict the plight of a proud and simple man caught between two worlds, an ineffectual colonial past and a corrupt bureaucratic present.
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Genre :
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Fiction francophone
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Nature (forme/thème) :
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Comédie
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Subtitles :
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English
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Movie in :
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French/Wolof
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Author's country of origin (fiction/CDs/movies) :
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Senegal
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Exemplaires (1)
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011474 | F-DVD 452 | DVD | Archives | Section 4 - cuisine | Disponible |