Overview
The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam.
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Setting
Set in Africa
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Music
Music by Manu Dibango
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Ousmane SembèneWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 16, 1978
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- Senegal, France
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Cast
Mamadou DiouméPrince Biram Ngone Thioub- Tabata NdiayePrincess Dior Yacine
- Moustapha YadeMadir Fatim Fall
- Ismaila DiagneCeddo Kidnapper
- Matoura DiaKing
- Omar GueyeJaraaf the King's Mediator
- Nar ModouMugis / Saxewar the Warrior
- Ousmane CamaraFara Diogomay the Elder Ceddo / Ousmane
- Alioune FallFall the Seed of the Dynasty
Makhouredia GueyeKing Demba War Thioub- Mamadou Sy
- Mody Gueye
- Samba Touré
- Serigne Ndiaye Gonzales
- Pierre OrmaPriest
- Eloi Coly
- Marek Tollik
- Clarice Diop
- GouréImam (uncredited)
- Raymond HermantierSlaves and Arms Trader (uncredited)
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