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Sur les traces de Ville Curelle un film de Sarah Dauphiné Tchouatcha & Tamnou Koloko ; une idée originale de Yves Chatap ; une production, Nassara Productions, Vus D'Afrique, Waanda Stoudio ; écriture ét réalisation, Sarah Dauphiné Tchouatcha et Tamnou Koloko ; produit par Sarah Dauphiné Tchouatcha, Yves Chatap, Yannick Deubou Sikoue
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mongo Beti, 1932-2001. Ville cruelle.
- Mongo Beti.
- Cameroonian literature.
- M'Balmayo (Cameroon).
- M'Balmayo (Cameroon)--In literature.
- Ville cruelle (Mongo Beti).
- Literature.
- Cameroon--M'Balmayo.
- Genre:
- Documentary films
- Nonfiction films
- Feature films
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 1 min., 32 sec.)) sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- English title On the traces of Cruel City
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] [Nassara Productions] [2025]
- Language Note:
- In French with English subtitles
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- "In Mbalmayo, Cameroon—the town that inspired the novel’s fictional setting—the film follows two teenagers moving through spaces marked by that history. Their presence anchors a journey that connects lived experience, memory, and literature. Through conversations with Odile Tobner and others who knew Beti, the film reflects on the conditions that gave rise to his writing: the colonial economy, the cocoa trade, and the social realities of the 1950s. Without separating past from present, it traces how those structures continue to shape contemporary life"-- ArtMattan Films
- Participant:
- Narrator, Um Néfertiti
- Credits:
- Composer, Rass Nganmo ; director of photography, Arnold Ndal ; editor, Tamnou Koloko
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2025
- Online resource; title from title frame (viewed October 21, 2026)
- OCLC:
- 1621960879
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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