Little Senegal /
After many years as a tourist guide in the Slave museum in Senegal, Alloune, 65, a widower living alone, decides to go to America in search of his ancestors, taken away from the village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World. From Charleston to Little Senegal, New York, Alloune searches f...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Bréhat, Jean, film producer. Bouchareb, Rachid, film producer, film director, screenwriter. Lorelle, Olivier, screenwriter. Kouyaté, Sotigui, actor. Hope, Sharon, actor. Zem, Roschdy, actor. Makinde, Adetoro, actor. Traoré, Karim, actor. Diarra, Adja, actor. Lacario, Malaaika, actor. Chamaillard, Benôit, director of photography. Deegen, Sandrine, editor of moving image work. Boutela, Safy, composer (expression) |
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| Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | Cinema Libre Studio, film distributor. 3B Productions, production company. France 2 cinéma (Firm), production company. Taunusfilm International (Firm), production company. Tassili Films (Firm), production company. Cofimage 11 (Firm), production company. Gimages 3 Films (Firm), production company. Studio Canal+, production company. Centre national de la cinématographie (France), production company. |
| Format: | DVD |
| Language: | English French |
| Language notes: | In English and French with English subtitles. |
| Imprint: | [Los Angeles, California] : Cinema Libre Studio, 2011. |
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| Summary: | After many years as a tourist guide in the Slave museum in Senegal, Alloune, 65, a widower living alone, decides to go to America in search of his ancestors, taken away from the village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World. From Charleston to Little Senegal, New York, Alloune searches for his ancestors but also for an ideal vision of an African family, only to discover a strong ostracism between African and Afro-American communities. He is embodied by his nephew Hassan, a cab driver and his girlfriend Biram, an African with modern views of love and marriage; and Ida an older woman, faced with seeing her pregnant granddaughter destroyed by drugs and life on the street. -- uniFrance. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Credits: | Cinematography, Benôit Chamaillard ; editor, Sandrine Deegen ; original music, Safy Boutela. |
| Cast: | Sotigui Kouyaté, Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem, Adetoro Makinde, Karim Traoré, Adja Diarra, Malaaika Lacario. |