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Title:

Touki bouki / written, directed, and produced by Djibril Dio Mambéty.

Edition:

DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; Full screen.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Young adults--Senegal--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Senegal--Drama.
Criminals--Senegal--Drama.
Postcolonialism--Africa--Drama.
Dakar (Senegal)--Drama.
Senegal--Social life and customs--Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Road films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Diop Mambéty, Djibril, 1945-1998, screenwriter. film producer, screenwriter.
Niang, Magaye, actor.
Niang, Mareme, actor.
Fall, Aminata, 1942-2002, actor.
Diop, Ousseynou, 1941-2011, actor.
Scorsese, Martin, on-screen participant.
Sissako, Abderrahmane, on-screen participant.
Clark, Ashley, essayist.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Other Titles:

Container of (work) : Contras' city (Motion picture)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1973. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features; introduction from 2013 by the Film Foundation's founder and chair, Martin Scorsese; interview from 2013 with filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako; interview program from 2012 featuring musician Wasis Diop and filmmaker Mati Diop, Mambéty's brother and niece, respectively; Contras' city, a 1968 short film by Mambéty. Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop.

Summary:

Anta and Mory are young lovers fed up with Dakar and plan to escape to France, which they imagine to be paradisiacal, but reality and surreality place obstacles in their path at every turn.

Series:

Criterion collection 685.

ISBN:

1681438119
9781681438115

UPC:

715515256513

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)