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Mossane (1996)
Directed by Safi Faye
Drama · 1h 45m
A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors; however, she is in love a poor student who has returned to the village while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.
Cast
M
Magou Seck
Mossane
Isseu Niang
Mère Mingué Diouf
M
Moustapha Yade
Samba
A
Abou Camara
Oncle Baak
A
Alioune Konaré
Fara
A
Alpha Diouph
Ngor
I
Ibou N'Dong
Père Farba Diouf
M
Moussa Cissé
Le jeune mendiant
M
Médoune Seck
Vieux Senghane
M
Mbaye Diagne
Le patriarche
D
Daouda Lam
Diokel
S
Seynabou Guèye
Dibor
Crew
- Director
- Safi Faye
- Writer
- Safi Faye
- Director of Photography
- Jürgen Jürges
- Editor
- Andrée Davanture
Details
- Release date
- 1996-05-18
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- WO
- Spoken languages
- Wolof, French
- Countries
- Germany, Senegal