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Mandabi = The money order / Filmi Domireve, Comptoir Français du Film Production, Robert de Nesle ; bíndí misen ní Usman Semben ; directeuri productionbi, Jean Maumy, Paul S. Vieyra.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 689 DVD + booklet + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1065.
- The Criterion collection ; 1065
- Language:
- English
- French
- Wolof
- Subjects (All):
- Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007--Film adaptations.
- Sembène, Ousmane.
- Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007.
- Bureaucracy--Senegal--Drama.
- Bureaucracy.
- Political corruption--Senegal--Drama.
- Political corruption.
- Manners and customs.
- Senegal--Social life and customs--Drama.
- Senegal.
- Genre:
- Comedy films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Motion pictures, Senegalese.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Foreign language films -- Wolof.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. +1 booklet (63 pages ; 18 cm) + 1 insert (1 folded leaf : color illustrations ; 19 cm)..
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- color
- stamping
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Other Title:
- Money order
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In Wolof and French with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; Mono, wide screen 1.66:1.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A man tries to cash a check sent from his nephew, but encounters problems because he has no identity card.
- Participant:
- Makhouredia Gueye, Yunus Ndiay, Isseu Niang, Mustapha Ture, Farba Sarr.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Paul Soulignac ; film editing, Gilou Kikoïne, Max Saldinger.
- Notes:
- Based on the novella "Mandat" by Usman Semben.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968.
- "Features: introduction by film scholar Aboubakar Sanogo; conversation from 2020 with author and screenwriter Boubacar Boris Diop and sociologist and feminist activist Marie Angélique Savané; "Praise song," a new program about director Ousmane Sembène featuring outtakes from the 2015 documentary "Sembène!" of interviews with author and activist Angela Davis, musician Youssou N'Dour, filmmaker and scholar Manthia Diawara, and many others; short film "Tauw" (1970) by Sembène; new English subtitle translation by Sembène biographer Samba Gadjigo.
- Accompanying booklet contains an English translation of the novella on which the film is based. The insert contains an essay by critic and scholar Tiana Reid and excerpts from a 1969 interview with Sembène.
- For private home use only.
- ISBN:
- 168143802X
- 9781681438023
- 0715515255219
- OCLC:
- 1237267985
- Publisher Number:
- 715515255219
- 00715515255219 gtin-14
- CC3221D Criterion Collection
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