Director
Rachid Bouchareb
Composer
Safy Boutella
Cast
Sotigui Kouyaté, Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem, Karim Koussein Traore, Adetoto Makinde, Adja Diarra, Malaaika Lacario
Edition 2001
98'
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2000
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Arabic, French, English, Wolof
Alloune, an old man who has worked many years as a tourist guide in the Slave Museum in Gorée, Senegal, decides to go to America to find out about his ancestors who were sold as slaves to the New World. Travelling from Senegal to Charleston and then to Little Senegal, Alloune finds the source of his family tree and then meets his Americanised cab driver nephew and his much more African girlfriend. The two, it seems, have irreconcilable differences. He also meets Ida, a fierce old lady for whom he works and who, he discovers, is as lonely as he is. Faced with a pregnant granddaughter who is virtually living on the streets, she is totally uninterested in her own African heritage. (Screen International, Feb. 2001)
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Directors
Rachid Bouchareb
Composers
Safy Boutella
Cast
Sotigui Kouyaté, Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem, Karim Koussein Traore, Adetoto Makinde, Adja Diarra, Malaaika Lacario
Scenario
Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle
Director of Photography
Benoît Chamaillard, Youcef Sahraoui
Editors
Sandrine Deegen
Producers
Jean Bréhat, Allen Bain
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Dialogue
Arabic, French, English, Wolof
Countries of production
Algeria, Germany, France
Year
2000
