Rent Mandabi (1968)
3.7 of 5 from 63 ratings
1h 28min
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- Synopsis:
- Ousmane Sembene's 1968 film 'Mandabi', the first ever feature length film in the African language of Wolof. Makhouredia Gueye gives a wonderful performance as jobless Ibrahima Dieng who receives a money order for 25,000 francs from his nephew in Paris. News of his good fortune soon spreads and neighbours, friends, corrupt bureaucrats and even his own relations attempt to trick Dieng out of the money due to him. Winner of the international Critics prize at Venice Film Festival in 1968, Mandabi is a brilliant tragi-comic foray into the corrupt and absurd world of Senegalese bureaucracy.
- Actors:
- Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'Diaye, Isseu Niang, Mustapha Ture, Farba Sarr, Serigne N'Diayes, Thérèse Bas, Mouss Diouf, Christoph Colomb, Mamadou Cisoko, Moudoun Faye, Ousmane Sembene, Serigne Sow
- Directors:
- Ousmane Sembene
- Producers:
- Robert de Nesle
- Writers:
- Ousmane Sembene
- Aka:
- The Money Order
- Studio:
- Studio Canal (Optimum)
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 1
- Countries:
- Senegal
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 28/06/2021
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- German LPCM Mono, Wolof
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Shooting Mandabi - Silent Footage from British Pathe
- Audio Commentary with Sembene! (2015) Filmmakers Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman
- Interview with Alain Sembene
- A Senegalese Story - Mandabi and the Birth of West African Cinema (Professor David Murphy)
- A Date with Dakar - Looking Back at a Sembene Classic (Film Curator Keith Shiri)
- Conversation in Dakar with Author Boubacar Boris Diop and Sociologist Marie-Angelique Savane
- Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (1) of Mandabi
Vivid story with a moral - Mandabi review by TE
This is both an important film in the history of cinema and a wonderfully energetic tale that resembles a medieval allegory.
Ousmane Sembene directs a lively assault on crude capitalism, the legacy of imperialism and the way that poverty forces people to act in selfish, cynical ways. And all this is achieved amidst a wonderful array of colour and physicality, making it reminiscent of the best Chaucerian tales transplanted to Senegal in the post-colonial era.
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