Finzan / une co-production Kora Films, ZDF, CNPC ; scénario et réalisation, Cheick Oumar Sissoku.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Sissoku, Cheick Oumar, director, screenwriter.

Kora Films (Firm), producer.

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, producer.

Centre national de production cinématographique du Mali, producer.

California Newsreel (Firm), distributor.

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