Isiyaka Kane, Awa Sangare, Nyamanto Sanogo, Bala Musa Keyita, Sumba Tarawolo, Isimayila Sar, Koke Sangare, Yusufu Tenen Sise, Sidi Jalo. Originally produced in Mali by Cissé Films 1987; released in association with Cinecom International Films.
Summary:
A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified world order and captures the Bambara belief in time as circular, not linear, always returning to that initial "brightness" which created the world.
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