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Finzan / une co-production Kora Films, ZDF, CNPC ; scénario et réalisation, Cheick Oumar Sissoku.
LIBRA VHS PN1995.9.W6 F55 1990
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Library of African cinema.
- Library of African cinema
- Language:
- Bambara
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Bambara--Social conditions--Drama.
- Women, Bambara.
- Women--Mali--Social conditions--Drama.
- Women.
- Bambara (African people)--Social life and customs--Drama.
- Bambara (African people).
- Bambara (African people)--Marriage customs and rites--Drama.
- Bambara (African people)--Marriage customs and rites.
- Bambara (African people)--Social life and customs.
- Social conditions.
- Mali.
- Ethnic music recordings--Mali.
- Ethnic music recordings, Bambara.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnic music recordings--Mali.
- Ethnic music recordings, Bambara.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Malian.
- Motion pictures, German.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (113 min., 10 sec.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Dance for the heroes.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], [1990?]
- Language Note:
- In Bambara with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Tells the story of how two women rebel. Nanyuma, a young widow, refuses her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young girl sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally circumcised by the village women who are scandalized that she resists the age-old custom.
- Participant:
- Diarrah Sonogo Koti, Oumar Namory Keïta, Saïdou Touré.
- Credits:
- Editing, Ouoba Motandi.
- Notes:
- Title on container : Finzan = A dance for the heroes.
- OCLC:
- 77975069
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