Overview
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.
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Setting
Set in Cameroon, French Cameroons and Mindif
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Music
Music by Abdullah Ibrahim
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Robert Alazraki
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Claire DenisWriter
- Jean-Pol FargeauWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 18, 1988
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- France, Cameroon, Germany
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In the United States
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Cast
Isaach de BankoléProtée
Giulia BoschiAimée Dalens
François CluzetMarc Dalens
Jean-Claude AdelinLuc- Laurent ArnalMachinard
Jean BédiébéProsper
Jean-Quentin ChâtelainCourbassol
Emmanuelle ChauletMireille Machinard
Kenneth CranhamJonathan Boothby
Jacques DenisJoseph Delpich- Cécile DucasseFrance Dalens (Child)
- Clementine EssonoMarie-Jeanne
- Didier FlamandCaptain Védrine
Essindi MindjaBlaise
Mireille PerrierFrance Dalens- Emmet Judson WilliamsonWilliam J. Park
- Donatus Ngala
- Edwige Nto Ngon a Zock
- Philemon Blake Ondoua
- Hervé Abah
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