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La vie est belle /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmLanguage: French Subtitle language: English Series: Library of African cinemaPublisher: [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, [between 2000 and 2009]Description: 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

Other title:

Parallel title on container: Life is rosy
Also known as: Life is beautiful

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

791.43/72 22

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.M86 V53 2000z

Production credits:

Editor, Martine Giordano ; music, Papa Wemba, Klody, Zaiko Langa Langa, Tshala Muana.

Cast: Papa Wemba, Bibi Krubwa ... [et al.].Summary: La Vie est belle tells the rags to riches story of Kourou, a poor rural musician who realizes that to succeed in today's music world he must go to the city and break into radio and television. In Kinshasa he uses his wit and talent to win a beautiful wife, trick his greedy boss and succeed in singing his "theme song" on national television. Although the film is primarily entertainment, it reveals much about class divisions, male-female relations, the desires of the urban poor, and the economic and social problems confronting rural immigrants to the cities of Zaire.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-02415 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050190690

DVD release of the 1987 motion picture.

DVD-R; this disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

In French with English subtitles.

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