| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in |
| Summary |
A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified world order and captures the Bambara belief in time as circular, not linear, always returning to that initial "brightness" which created the world |
| Notes |
Originally produced in Mali by Cissé Films 1987; released in association with Cinecom International Films |
| Credits |
Director, Souleymane Cissé ; further extensive credits given in the Bambara language only |
| Cast |
Balla Moussa Keita, Issiaka Kane, Soumba Traoure |
| Notes |
DVD |
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In Bambara with English subtitles |
| Subject |
Bambara (African people) -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Foreign film
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Fantasy.
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Foreign films
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Video recordings.
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Drama.
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| Author |
Cissé, Souleymane.
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Keita, Balla Moussa.
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Kane, Issiaka.
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Traoure, Soumba.
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Cissé Films.
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Kino International Corporation.
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