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Emitaï es una película senegalesa de 1971 dirigida por Ousmane Sembène. [1] Fue exhibida en la séptima edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de Moscú, donde ganó el Premio de Plata. [2]
Emitaï (, name of a Diola deity) is a 1971 Senegalese drama film directed by Ousmane Sembène.
Año: 1971. Título original: Emitai. Sinopsis: Ambientada en el año 1942, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en un pueblo de Casamance, los hombres jóvenes del poblado son reclutados por el ejército francés.
Emitaï. With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War II when French colonial forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola people and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe.
4 de may. de 1977 · As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped Senegalese history, EMITAÏ explores the strains that colonialism places upon cultural traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebellion and dignity.
Seething with outrage, Ousmane Sembène’s Emitaï envisions both the cruelties of oppression and the revolutionary potential of the oppressed. During World War II, Marshal Pétain’s French forces and their African lackeys comb the Senegalese countryside, conscripting young Diola men into service and attempting to seize rice stores for ...
