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Mandabi [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Ousmane Sembène.

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The Criterion Collection, 2021.

Criterion collection ; 1065.

9781681438023 :

Alternate title:

Money order [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.

A France/Senegal co-production.

In Wolof and French with English subtitles.

Director, Ousmane Sembene.

Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'Diaye, Isseu Niang, Mustpha Ture, Farba Sarr.

After jobless Ibrahima Dieng receives a money order for 25,000 francs from a nephew who works in Paris, news of his windfall quickly spreads among his neighbors, who flock to him for loans even as he finds his attempts to cash the order stymied in a maze of bureaucracy, and new troubles rain down on his head. An adaptation of a novella by the director himself is a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption, greed, and poverty.

MWT rating: NR. Ci: Includes 1 booketl + 1 folded sheet insert.

Social problem films.

Satirical films.

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