Moolaadé

Credits

Name: Moolaadé

Country: Senegal/ Frankreich/ Burkina Faso/ Marokko/ Kamerun/ Tunesien

Year of publication: 2004

Format: 35mm, DVD, VHS

Color: color

Language : OF m. dt. UT

Duration: 117 Minuten

Direction: Sembène, Ousmane

Screenplay: Sembène, Ousmane

Camera: Gentil, Dominique

Editing: Raïss, Abdellatif

Sound: Guilhem, Denis

Actor: Coulibaly, Fatoumata; Traoré, Salimata; Diarra, Maimouna Hélène

Abstract

Moolaadé starts with the flight of four girls just before theyhave to undergo the purification ritual that is organised in their West African village. They seek refuge with Collé, once a victim of circumcision herself and mother to a teenage daughter who escaped the ritual. Collé activates the ‘moolaadé’: an old charm that will bring calamity to anyone who does anything to the girls while they are under her roof. In doing so, she evokes the wrath of the villagers…

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