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Mama Benz & the taste of money / a Ryninks Films production in co-production with IKON and RNTV ; written and directed by Karin Junger ; produced by Carmen Cobos.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 021 599
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Vlisco (Firm).
- Women merchants--Africa, West.
- Women merchants.
- Women, Black--Economic conditions.
- Women, Black.
- Textile fabrics--Togo--Marketing.
- Textile fabrics.
- Textile fabrics--Burkina Faso--Marketing.
- Marketing.
- Burkina Faso.
- Togo.
- West Africa.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Mama Benz and the taste of money
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Dialogue in French with English subtitles ; limited narration in English.
- System Details:
- DVD-R format.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A documentary on the marketing in West Africa (specifically, in Togo and Burkina Faso) of textiles produced by Vlisco, a Dutch company. The local market women who sell Vlisco cloth have become very wealthy and are affectionately referred to as Mama Benz because they can afford to have a chauffeured Mercedes Benz. This film focuses on the interplay between the men of Vlisco and the West African market women they depend on to sell their product.
- Credits:
- Camera, Adri Schrover ; editor, Maaik Krijgsman.
- Notes:
- This disc is a DVD-R and may fail to play on some DVD equipment.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 54977913
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