Black Girl

La Noire de...

Director: Ousmane Sembène
Country: Senegal

1966 | 65 min. | French
Subtitles: German, English
FSK | Nicht geprüft / No clearance

Cast_ Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene, Ibrahima Boy Screenplay_ Ousmane Sembène Camera_ Christian Lacoste Producer_ André Zwobada Rights_ trigon-film

Ousmane Sembène’s legendary debut film offers a revelation about colonialism in a supposedly post-colonial world that begs to be rediscovered.

Ousmane Sembène was one of Africa’s most important filmmakers and writers and his immeasurable influence was felt far beyond the continent. He caused a sensation with his cinematic debut ›Black Girl‹: a young woman works as a nanny for a French family in Dakar. When they decide to return to France, she goes with them. No sooner have they arrived, however, than she becomes a cheap cleaner and cook whose body is degraded to the status of exotic object. Faced with this blatant racism, the young woman vows never to be a slave again and commits a radical act of resistance.


As an opening film, we will show ›The House Is Black‹ by Forough Farrokhzad (22 min).

Director

Ousmane Sembène (1923-2007) was a highly influential Senegalese filmmaker and writer, and a pioneer of African cinema. His other most important films include ›Mandabi‹ (1968), ›Camp de Thiaroye‹ (1988) and ›Guelwaar‹ (1992).

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