Senegal,
1966, 60 min
Shown in 1993
CREDITS
- dir
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Ousmane Sembène
- prod
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Ousmane Sembène
- scr
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Ousmane Sembène
- cam
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Christian Lacoste
- cast
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Robert Fontaine, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Therèse N’Bissine Diop, Momar Nar Sene
- source
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New Yorker Films
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COMMENTS
Ousmane Sembène appeared in person to receive the 1993 Akira Kurosawa Award.
OTHER
In 1966, Ousmane Sembène burst on the world scene with his first full length film, Black Girl, the most profound film ever made on the micro politics of everyday racism. Sembène documents the progressive dehumanization inflicted upon a poor, illiterate young woman by a French couple that has lured her away from Africa with promises of a better life in order to virtually imprison her as their "maid."
—Saul Steier
FACTOID #45
Peter Jennings, Peter Ustinov, Bill Cosby and Gene Kelly have all served as master of ceremonies on Opening Night of the San Francisco International Film Festival.
