Emitaï (Gott des Donners). R: Ousmane Sembène, 1971, Senegal, 103‘, Wolof, Diola, Französisch mit englischen Untertiteln, mit Live Übersetzung ins Deutsche

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Film screening
With an introduction by Aboubakar Sanogo
Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Free admission

During the Second World War, the Vichy regime recruits men from the French colonies. The resistance in a Diola village in Senegal develops into an uprising under the merciless pressure of colonial rule and ends in tragedy. Ousmane Sembène's cinematic narrative follows the gradual escalation of the conflict with a focus on the villagers. However, it does not draw its dramatic strength from the fates of the individual protagonists, but from the fatal clash between the village's established order of life and the ignorance, disrespect and aggression of the 'white' colonialists. Just as the village elder directs his hope not to Emitaï, the god of change, but to the uprising, Sembène directs his hope to the younger generation.