Title of film : The Money Order
Director Name : Ousmane Sembene
Cast & crew :
Producer : Robert de Nesle
Editor : Gilbert Kikoine ,Max Saldinger
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Synopsis : 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. One of Sembène’s most coruscatingly funny and indignant films, Mandabi—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.
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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