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Sango Malo = the village teacher / présente par Les Films Terre Africaine ; un film de Bassek Ba Kobhio; director, Bassek ba Kobhio; writers, Bonaventure Takoukam, Sun Issa Traore, Marie-Jeanne Kanzala.
LIBRA DVD 017 159
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Bassek Ba Kobhio, 1957- Sango Malo, author.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Bassek Ba Kobhio, 1957---Film adaptations.
- Bassek Ba Kobhio.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Cameroonian fiction (French).
- Manners and customs.
- Cameroon--In motion pictures.
- Cameroon.
- Cameroon--Social life and customs--Drama.
- Africa--In motion pictures.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Village teacher
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel [distributor], [between 1994 and 2007?]
- Language Note:
- In French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A young teacher, Sango Malo, comes to a rural village with ideas of promoting rural development through practical education. He clashes with the established headmaster, who insists on a traditional French-style education. Malo alienates many of his supporters through his impatience and is arrested by the army on the behalf of the village chief, storeowner and priest. But he has taught well and the the villagers carry on his ideas without him.
- Participant:
- Jerome Bolo, Marcel Mvondo II, Edwige Ntongon à Zock.
- Credits:
- Photographer, Joseph Guerin ; music, Francis Bebey.
- Notes:
- English title from container.
- DVD-R format may not play on all DVD players.
- Based on the novel of the same name by Bassek Bo Kobhio.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.
- A foreign film (Cameroon).
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license. Resource Sharing not permitted.
- OCLC:
- 189780244
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