After working as a babysitter for a French family in Dakar, a young Senegalese woman is invited to come to France as a governess. But in the West she is only "the black girl" for everyone. Deprived of her freedom, her dignity and her identity, she sees only a radical last act of resistance. Ousmane Sembène's feature film debut was one of the very first African feature films and is based on a newspaper report about the suicide of an African housemaid. From this, Sembène formed a parable about neo-colonialism and the new slave trade.
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Directed by | Sembène Ousmane | ||||||||||
Country | Senegal | ||||||||||
Available Formats | Blu-ray, DCP | ||||||||||
Screenplay | Ousmane Sembène | ||||||||||
Film Editing | André Gaudier | ||||||||||
Cinematography | Christian Lacoste | ||||||||||
Runtime | 65 Min. | ||||||||||
Language | Französisch/d | ||||||||||
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Prix Jean-Vigo
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