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Tableau ferraille [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: fre , wol Subtitle language: English Series: Library of African cinema (Videodisc)Publication details: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [2007?]Description: 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director, Moussa Sene Absa; editors, Pascale Chavance, Caroline Coudin, Virginie Descure; screenplay, Martine Brun. ; music, Maadu Diabaté.
Cast: Ismaël Lô, Ndèye Fatou Ndaw, Thierno Ndiaye, Ndèye Bineta Diop.Summary: Tells the story of an idealistic young politician's rise and fall. Daam, a well-intentioned but vacillating European-trained politician, must choose between two social paradigms exemplified by his two wives. The film offers a view of how modernization, as practiced in today's Africa, corrodes traditional communities and retards grassroots development.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02413 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050190674

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997.

DVD-R. May have problems playing on certain DVD players.

In French and Wolof; subtitles in English.

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