Title of film : The God of Thunder
Director Name : Ousmane Sembene
Cast & crew :
Producer : Filmi Doomireew
Editor : Gilbert Kikoine
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Synopsis : Seething with outrage, Ousmane Sembene’s Emitai envisions both the cruelties of oppression and the revolutionary potential of the oppressed. During World War II, Marshal Petain’s French forces and their African lackeys comb the Senegalese countryside, conscripting young Diola men into service and attempting to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. Torn between allegiance to their silent gods and fear of fomenting a resistance of their own that might upset them, the tribe’s patriarchal leadership frays; meanwhile, the French humiliate the women of the tribe when they refuse to yield their harvests. With unflinching realism, Sembene explores the strains that colonialism places upon cultural traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebellion and dignity.
Director Bio : Ousmane Sembene 1 January 1923 or 8 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), often credited in the French style as Sembene Ousmane which he seemed to favor as a way to underscore the "colonial imposition" of this naming ritual and subvert it, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and he has often been called the "father of African film". Descended from a Serer family through his mother from the line of Matar Sene, Ousmane Sembene was particularly drawn to Serer religious festivals especially the Tuur festival.
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