Rent Black Girl / Borom Sarret (1966)
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1h 0min
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- Synopsis:
- Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene was the first Sub-Saharan African filmmaker to achieve international recognition, and is widely regarded as the father of African cinema. His first major work. Black Girl, is the uncompromising story of Diouana, a young Senegalese nanny whose hopes of an exciting life in France are dashed when her white employers expect her to work as their servant. Also included is Sembene's directorial debut, the short film Borom Sarret, the first ever indigenous Black African film. An allegorical tale exploring poverty and inequality, it charts a day in the life of a hard-up cart driver in Dakar, whose good deeds are rewarded with great injustice.
- Actors:
- Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene, Ibrahima Boy, Bernard Delbard, Nicole Donati, Raymond Lemeri, Suzanne Lemeri, Philippe, Sophie, Damien, Ousmane Sembene, Ly Abdoulay, Albourah
- Directors:
- Ousmane Sembene
- Producers:
- André Zwoboda
- Voiced By:
- Toto Bissainthe, Robert Marcy, Sophie Leclerc
- Writers:
- Ousmane Sembene
- Aka:
- La noire de
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 1
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 19/10/2015
- Run Time:
- 60 minutes
- Languages:
- French LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- Colour and B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Theatrical and alternative colour-sequence versions of Black Girl
- Snatches of a Conversation with M'Bissine Therese Diop (2005,14 mins): interview with the star of Black Girl
- Sembene: The Making of African Cinema (Manthia Diawara, Ngigi wa Thiong'o, 1994, 60 mins): award-winning documentary about the pioneering filmmaker
- Sembene: A Portrait (D Sentilhes, B Josse, 2003, 12 mins): illustrated chronology of the director's life in film
