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Guimba : un tyran, une époque / Idrissa Ouedraogo presente ; une production Kora-Films ; un film de Cheick Oumar Sissoko.
LIBRA VHS PN1995.9.A43 G856 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Bambara
- English
- Fula
- Subjects (All):
- Dictators--Africa, West--Drama.
- Dictators.
- Griots--Africa, West--Drama.
- Griots.
- Motion pictures, Mali.
- Motion pictures, African.
- West Africa.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, African.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (94 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container label: Guimba, the tyrant
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kino on Video, [1999]
- Language Note:
- In Bambara and Peul with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- stereo
- VHS
- Summary:
- An epic set in the legendary past of Mali (West Africa) to provide a biting allegory of present-day African politics. Through the story of the downfall of Guimba the tyrant, the filmmaker foretells a similar fate for the many dictators who still pillage the continent. He frames his film with the appearance of a griot, a traditional African storyteller who passes down the "wisdom of the ancestors", looking to the values and legends of the African past for inspiration and guidance in reconstructing well-governed, self-sufficient nations.
- Participant:
- Falaba Issa Traore, Bala Moussa Keita, Habib Dembele, Lamine Diallo, Hélène Diarra, Mouneïssa Maiga.
- Credits:
- Photography, Lionel Cousin ; editors, Kahena Attia, Joëlle Dufour ; music, Pierre Sauvageot, Michel Risse.
- Notes:
- "En coproduction avec La Centre National de Production Cinematographique du Mali, la Direction de la Production Cinematographique du Burkina-Faso, la WDR Cologne."
- Videocassette release of a motion picture originally produced in 1995.
- A foreign film (Mali, Burkina Faso, Germany).
- OCLC:
- 41882948
- Publisher Number:
- 738329032234
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