Wend Kuuni

Credits

Name: Wend Kuuni

Country: Burkina Faso

Year of publication: 1982

Format: digital

Color: color

Language : OF m. dt. UT

Duration: 75 min. Minuten

Series: 18. Afrikafilmfestival

Direction: Kaboré, Gaston

Screenplay: Kaboré, Gaston

Camera: Thiombiano, Issaka

Editing: Davanture, Andrée

Sound: Koné, Boubakar

Actor: Yanogo, Serge; Yanogo, Rosine; Nikiema, Joseph; Kaboré, Collette

Abstract

Koubila`s husband died and she is convinced that he`ll come back so she won`t marry anyone else although tradition wants her to. Therefore she has to leave and will die a few years later. Then, her son ends up living with another family...

In pre-colonial times a peddler crossing the savanna discovers a child lying unconscious in the bush. When the boy regains consciousness, he is mute and cannot explain who he is. The peddler leaves him with a family in the nearest village who adopt him and give him the name "Wend Kuuni" (God`s Gift) and a loving sister with whom he bonds. Wend Kuuni regains his speech only after witnessing a tragic event that prompts him to reveal his own painful history.

This gentle fable, by one of the most celebrated directors of African cinema, emphasises the importance of traditional values in modern Africa. (Africultures)

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