Mandabi = Money order / a film by Ousmane Sembene.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
  • Wolof
  • French
Εdition
Blu-ray special edition
Published/​Created
  • [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
  • ©2021
Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (63 pages ; 17 cm) + 1 folded sheet.

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Subject(s)
Film director
Actor
Publisher
Library of Congress genre(s)
Series
Summary note
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.
Notes
  • Title from container.
  • 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 Angelique Savane; Praise song, a new program about director Ousmane Sembene, featuring outtakes from 2015 documentary Sembene! of interviews with author and activist Angela Davis, musician Youssou N'Dour, filmmkaer and scholar Manthia Diawara and many others; Tauw, a 1970 shor film by Sembene; plus an essay by critic and scholar Tiana Reid and excerpts from a 1969 interview with Sembene.
System details
Blu-ray, monaural ; wide screen (1.66:1); requires Blu-ray player.
Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'diaye, Isseu Niang, Mustpha Ture, Farba Sarr.
Language note
Wolof or French dialogue; English subtitles.
Other title(s)
  • Money order
  • Mandabi (Motion picture)
  • Mandabi (Motion picture). French.
ISBN
  • 9781681438016
  • 1681438011
Publisher no.
CC3220BD
OCLC
1227626076
Universal Product Code
  • 715515255110
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