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Emitaï ( [ɛ.mi.ta.i], name of a Diola deity) is a 1971 Senegalese drama film directed by Ousmane Sembène. [1] Plot. During World War II, the Vichy government conscripts men from France's colonies. A revolt breaks out in a Diola village where the women hide the rice crop harvest instead of submitting to the French tax.
Emitaï. With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War II when French colonial forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola people and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe.
May 4, 1977 · Emitai: Directed by Ousmane Sembene. With Andongo Diabon, Robert Fontaine, Michel Renaudeau, Ousmane Camara. As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
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- Drama
- Ousmane Sembene
- 1977-05-04
With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped Senegalese history, EMITAÏ explores the strains that colonialism places upon cultural traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebellion and dignity.
Seething with outrage, Ousmane Sembène’s Emitaï envisions both the cruelties of oppression and the revolutionary potential of the oppressed. During World War II, Marshal Pétain’s French forces and their African lackeys comb the Senegalese countryside, conscripting young Diola men into service and attempting to seize rice stores for ...
Emitaï. With a film dedicated to all militants supporting the African cause, “Emitaï” lays bare the hypocrisies of imperalism. Set during World War II, the story focuses on the remote Diola tribe’s resistance to the French army’s acquisitions of their essential supplies.
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Seething with outrage, Ousmane Sembène’s Emitaï envisions both the cruelties of oppression and the revolutionary potential of the oppressed. During World War II, Marshal Pétain’s French forces and their African lackeys comb the Senegalese countryside, conscripting young Diola men into service and attempting to seize rice stores for ...
