Souleymane Cissé — Director (5)

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Waati (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Waati
director: 苏莱曼·西塞 actor: 苏莱曼·西塞 / Mariame Amerou Mohamed Dicko …
other title: 时间 / Le temps …
This film, which has been shown twice in France on the Arte channel but is, I believe, not available on video, is one of the most impressive films from one of the francophonic world's greatest directors. Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, it follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa. This is a vastly ambitious film, attempting as it does to deal with a number of cultures and countries of contemporary Africa, each with its own history, language, and political and social conflicts. At its center are two immensely impressive performances by the actresses who play the heroine, first as a young girl, and later as an adult. Thus it manages to be at once an intimate portrait of a young woman, and a vast fresco of much of a continent.

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Baara (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Baara
other title: 工作 / Le Travail …
A young manager of a factory encounters a man walking along a road who says his family traditionally are servants to the manager's family. The manager offers him a job, and as he watches out for the other man's welfare, begins to see how the company mistreats its workers. The manager is challenged between his ethics and the pressure from others to protect his own interests as dire problems surface at the factory

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少女 (1975) Douban
Den Muso
director: 苏莱曼·西塞 actor: Dounamba Dany Coulibaly / Fanta Diabate …
other title: Den Muso
一名年轻的默默的妇女被强暴并且怀孕,直接给她的家庭内带来灾难性的结果。 电影同时也成为了20世纪70年代马里都市的社会/ 经济形势的素描,特别是关于处理妇女问题,极具震撼力度。

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The Wind (1982) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Finyé
other title: 风 / Finyé …
Two Malian teenagers, Bah and Batrou, from different backgrounds, meet at secondary school. Bah is the descendent of a great tribal chieftain. Batrous father, a provincial military governor, represents the new ruling power. The two teenagers are part of a generation that rejects the established order and challenges the society in which they live.