Director: Ousmane Sembène
Baseada nunha novela de Ousmane Sembène
Director: Ousmane Sembène
Produtor: André Zwoboda
Fotografía: Christian Lacoste
Montaxe: André Gaudier
Reparto: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinck (Señora), Robert Fontaine (Señor), Momar Nar Sene (Noivo), Ibrahima Boy (Neno con máscara).
Diouana (brilliantly played by Mbissine Thérèse Diop), is a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work as a nanny for a middle-class white family. Soon she will realize that she has been mislead into a form of slavery. Diouana’s struggle against her growing dehumanization becomes an allegory of the complexities of post-colonialism, posing larger questions about gender, race, identity, class, cultural dominance and exploitation. Combining traditional African “storytelling”, neorealism and experimental film, La Noire de… (The Black Girl of…) is regarded as the first feature length film made by a black African in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the first with a woman in a leading role. This magnificent and highly-praised debut film, directed by Ousmane Sembene, won France’s prestigious Prix Jean Vigo in 1966.
*Restored in 2015 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Sembène Estate, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, INA, Eclair laboratories and Centre National de Cinématographie. Restoration carried out at Cineteca di Bologna/ L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.