Emitaï

Ousmane Sembène · 1971 CE · Film · West African · Contemporary

In wartime Casamance a French officer conscripts the young men of a Diola village and then returns for its rice, the crop the community owes its own gods before anyone else. The women carry the harvest into the bush and will not say where, and the elders sit down to ask Emitai, god of thunder, for a ruling. Banned for years in Senegal and in France, and shot largely in Diola.

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