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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 bIazed a traiI for African filmmakers to teIl their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-Iong 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 radicaI caIl to resistance Emitaï, the wickedly subversive satire Xala, and the controversiaI historical epic Ceddo—confirmed his standing as a fearless truth-teIler for whom the camera was the uItimate weapon in the fight against oppression in aII its forms.
THREE-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restorations of aII three filmsNew conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African Film FestivaI, and fiIm writer Amy SalIThe Making of "Ceddo," a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou VieyraNew EngIish subtitIe translationsPLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar Yasmina Price
EMlTAÏ
With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicIes a period during WorId War lI when French coIoniaI 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 Ieaders 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 SenegaIese history, Emitaï explores the strains that coIoniaIism places upon cuIturaI traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebeIIion 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 El 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 local marabout, EI Hadji must face the possibility that he deserves the infIiction for his part in embezzling pubIic funds and for heIping to keep Senegal under French controI. Adeptly combining eIements of African foIkIore 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 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 sIave traders from Europe aIso playing a role in the confIict. Banned in SenegaI upon its reIease, Ceddo is an ambitious, multilayered epic that explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, reIigious coIonization, poIitical expediency, and individual freedom. |
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