Cedd (Ousmane Sembene) 12.01

In Wolof W / subtitling in English and French classic and controversial history of "outsiders" in a village in West Africa under the pressure of religious conversions and slavery in the 17th Century. Ousmane Sembene was born in 1923 in the Casamance region of rain on the coast of Senegal in West Africa. reach the first director of an African country to gain international recognition, Sembène remains the most important figure in the creation of an independent post-colonial cinema. Sembène the roots are notthe educated elite. After working as a mechanic and bricklayer, he joined the Free French forces in 1942, served in Africa and France. In 1946 he returned to Dakar, where he participated in the great railway strike of 1947. The following year he moved to France, where he worked in a Citroen factory in Paris, and then ten years in the dock in Marseilles. During this period, very active in the fight against the union and Sembene began a very successful career as a writer. His firstNovel, Le Docker Noir, published in 1956. Since then he has produced a series of influential literary works. On an avid spectator, Sembene became aware that to reach a mass audience of workers and Africans outside urban centers, was the film a more effective vehicle of the written word. In 1961 he went to Moscow to study film. After his return to Senegal, Sembene made two short films, then wrote and directed his first feature, La Noire de ... (Black Girl, 1966). Filmed in a simple,Almost ...