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Touki Bouki ( Senegal 1973 )

Color: Fiction, color, 88’

Direction: Djibril Diop Mambéty

Screenplay: Djibril Diop Mambéty

Director of Photography: Pap Samba Sow, Georges Bracher

Music: Loséphine Baker, Mado Robin, Aminata Fall

Editing: Siro Asteni

Cast: Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop

Production: Cinegrit

Synopsis

Mory, a cowherd who drives a motorcycle mounted with a cow’s skull, and Anta, a student, met in Dakar. Alienated and tired of Senegal, they dream of going to Paris and come up with different schemes to raise the money. Finally, Mory steals money and clothing from a wealthy homosexual who takes him to his home. Anta and he can finally buy tickets for the ship to France.

Réalisateur

Djibril Diop Mambéty (1945-1998). He was born in Senegal. became involved in cinema after leaving his position at the National Daniel Aorano Theater In Dakar. Shortly thereafter, he made his first short film, Badou Boy (1970),. In 1973, he directed his first feature, Touki Bouki which received worldwide acclaim for its revolutionary narrative style and became an instant classic. It would be nearly twenty years before he would make another film Hyènes (1992), regarded by some as a sequel to Touki Bouki, and based on the classic play "The Visit" by Frederich Dürrenmatt.