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Moolaadé / Filmi Domireew Sénégal présente ; co-production Direction de la Cinématographie Nationale, Centre Cinématographique Marocain, Cinetelefilms, Les Films de la Terre Africaine ; scénario et réalisation, Sembene Ousmane.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD/PAL 032 108
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Dyula
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage customs and rites.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Female genital mutilation.
- Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Female genital mutilation--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Drama.
- Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social conditions--Drama.
- Marriage customs and rites--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Drama.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Motion pictures, Senegalese.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Bois-Colombes [France] : Les Films du Paradoxe, 2007.
- Language Note:
- In Jula and French; optional subtitles in English and French.
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL, Region 2; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital.
- digital optical Dolby Digital
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- PAL
- video file DVD video region 2
- Summary:
- It is the time for the young girls of a village to be "purified" by ritual circumcision. The women know that many girls die after the operation, but the men of the village insist on the ceremony. Since the village men will not marry an un-cut woman, the older women insist on the ritual, too, as their daughters must find husbands. Colle has kept her daughter from being circumcised, and several of the girls go to her for refuge. Colle agrees to help them, and she invokes "moolaade," a form of sanctuary.
- Participant:
- Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maïmouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traore, Aminata Dao.
- Credits:
- Photography, Dominique Gentil; editor, Abdellatif Raïss; music, Boncana Maïga.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2004.
- Special feature: The making of Moolaade (In French with English subtitles).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.
- OCLC:
- 123982131
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