BLACK GIRL - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1966
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s.
• Cast: Mbissine Thérèse Diop; Anne-Marie Jelinek; Momar Nar Sene; Robert Fontaine; Bernard Delbard; Nicole Donati; Raymond Lemeri; Suzanne Lemeri; Ibrahima Boy; Philippe; Sophie; Damien; Toto Bissainthe; Robert Marcy; Sophie Leclair; Ousmane Sembene; André Zwoboda; Christian Lacoste; André Gaudier
• Director: Ousmane Sembene
• Runtime: 0:59
• Company: Filmi Domirev, Les Actualités Françaises, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie