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- Filming locations Dakar, Senegal (Centre town, far shot of the mosque, and suburbs.)
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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.
Jun 21, 2023 · Mandabi. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 1968 and considered the first feature-length film in an African language, Mandabi is regarded as one of Sembène’s most significant works. Ibrahima Dieng (Makhourédia Guèye) is a lazy, pompous man with two hard-working and obedient wives Mety and Aram (Ynousse N’Diaye ...
Mandabi: Directed by Ousmane Sembene. With Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'Diaye, Isseu Niang, Mustapha Ture. A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Ousmane Sembene
- 1970-03-26
Mandabi. Shot primarily in Wolof, this second feature by Ousmane Sembène was the first ever made in an African language—a major step toward the realization of the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker’s dream of creating a cinema by, about, and for the inhabitants of his home continent.
- Ibrahima Dieng
May 31, 2021 · Its dramatization of contemporary issues was hitherto unknown in African cinema. It was also entirely filmed in Wolof – the native language of Senegal after Sembene convinced the movie’s financiers that the most appropriate audience for the film were the Senegalese people.
Jan 13, 2021 · Filmed with a cast of nonprofessionals on the streets of Dakar, Senegal, it is a mordant fable of good fortune gone bad. Newly restored, the 1968 movie can be streamed from Film Forum,...
Jun 9, 2021 · One of the reasons that Mandabi was the first feature-length film in Wolof was that colonial administrations had banned natives from filmmaking – simply making the film was a political act. Sembène would argue that cinema enabled him to speak to the illiterate citizens that his novels were about.
