LA NOIRE DE… (BLACK GIRL)

Credits

Name: LA NOIRE DE… (BLACK GIRL)

Country: Senegal

Year of publication: 1966

Format: DCP

Format Canvas:

Language : OmeU

Duration: 65 Minuten

Series: 20. Afrika Film Festival Köln

Direction: Sembène, Ousmane

Abstract

After working as a babysitter for a French family in Dakar, a young Senegalese woman is invited to come to France as a governess. But in the West she is only "the black girl" for everyone. Deprived of her freedom, her dignity and her identity, she sees only a radical last act of resistance. Ousmane Sembène's feature film debut was one of the very first African feature films and is based on a newspaper report about the suicide of an African housemaid. From this, Sembène formed a parable about neo-colonialism and the new slave trade.