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Mandabi = The money order
Title
Mandabi = The money order / a film by Ousmane Sembène ; producer, Robert De Nesle ; written and directed by Ousmane Sembène.
ISBN
9781681438023
168143802X
Edition
Criterion collection.
Publication
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from sell sheet.
Origianlly produced as a motion picture in 1968.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
Special edition features: introduction by film scholar Aboubakar Sanigo; conversation from 2020 with author and screenwriter Boubacar Boris and sociologist and feminist activist Marie Angélique Savané; Praise song, a new program about director Ousmane Sembène, featuring outtakes from 2015 documentary Sembène! of interviews with author and activist Angela Davis, musician Youssou N'Dour, filmmkaer and scholar Manthia Diawara and many others; Tauw, a 1970 short film by Sembène; plus an essay by critic and scholar Tiana Reid and excerpts from a 1969 interview with Sembène.
Cinematographer, Paul Soulignac ; editors, Gilou Kikoïne, Max Saldinger.
Wolof or French dialogue; English subtitles.
Summary
After jobless Ibrahima Dieng receives a money order for 25,000 francs from a nephew who works in Paris, news of his windfall quickly spreads among his neighbors, who flock to him for loans even as he finds his attempts to cash the order stymied in a maze of bureaucracy, and new troubles rain down on his head. An adaptation of a novella by the director himself is a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption, greed, and poverty.
Variant and related titles
Money order
Mandabi (Motion picture)
Mandabi (Motion picture). French.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Wolof; French
Added to Catalog
May 27, 2021
Series
Credits
Cinematographer, Paul Soulignac ; editors, Gilou Kikoïne, Max Saldinger.
Cast
Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'diaye, Isseu Niang, Mustpha Ture, Farba Sarr.
System details note
DVD, monaural; wide screen (1.66:1).
Videorecording number
CC3221DDVD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Also listed under
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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