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Djibril Diop Mambéty
Date of Birth: 01 Jan 1945
Country: Senegal
Biography: Djibril Diop Mambéty was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only a small number of films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. (Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 6 (Director), 5 (Writer)
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A once-prosperous Senegalese village has been falling further into poverty year by year until the village's elders are reduced to selling town possessions to pay debts. Linguère, a former resident and local beauty, now very rich, returns to this, the village of her birth... (imdb)
Djibril Diop Mambéty's earliest film, a short entitled Contras City (1968), highlighted the contrasts of cosmopolitanism and unrestrained ostentation in Dakar's baroque architecture against the modest, everyday lives of the Senegalese. Mambéty's recurrent theme of hybridity--the blending of elements from precolonial Africa and the colonial West in a neocolonial African context--is already evident in Contras City, which is considered Africa's first comedy film. (Wikipedia)
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