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Mandabi (French: Le Mandat, "The Money Order") is a 1968 film written and directed by Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. The film is based on Sembène's novel The Money-Order and is the director's first film in his native Wolof language.
Mandabi. Ousmane Sembène's 1968 film Mandabi, about a poor man named Ibrahima Dieng who lives in Dakar with his two wives, Maty and Aram, and their seven children.
- 157 min
One of Sembène’s most coruscatingly funny and indignant films, MANDABI—an adaptation of a novella by the director himself—is a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption, greed, and poverty.
Mar 26, 1970 · Mandabi is a 1968 film by Ousmane Sembene, the first feature film made in an African language. It follows a Senegalese family man who receives a money order from Paris and faces various challenges and conflicts.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Ousmane Sembene
- 1970-03-26
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.
- Ousmane Sembène
- 90 min
- 6
Mar 30, 2021 · We follow Ibrahima trying to get his money through the absurd and corrupt Senegalese bureaucracy in a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption, greed...
- 1 min
- 25.3K
- StudiocanalUK
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Mandabi is a 1968 comedy-drama by the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, shot in Wolof and the first African feature film. It follows the misfortunes of Ibrahima Dieng, who receives a money order from his nephew in Paris and faces various problems in cashing it.
