Movie-Database: Movies
Little Senegal
Credits
Name: Little Senegal
Country: Algerien; Deutschland; Frankreich
Year of publication: 2001
Format: 35 mm
Color: color
Language : OF m.dt. UT
Duration: 98 Minuten
Direction: Bouchareb, Rachid
Screenplay: Bouchareb, Rachid; Lorelle, Olivier
Camera: Chamaillard, Benoît; Sahraoui, Youcef
Editing: Deegen, Sandrine
Sound: Delmeiren, Frédérique; Frey, Anne
Actor: Kouyaté, Sotigui; Hope, Sharon; Zem, Roschdy; Koussein-Traoré, Karim
Abstract
Sotigui Kouyaté in one of his most prominent roles: After many years as a tourist guide in the slave museum in Senegal, Alloune, 65, a widower living alone, decides to go to America in search of his ancestors, taken from the village 200 years ago and sold as slaves to the New World. In “Little Senegal“, a suburb of New York, he visites his nephew Hassan only to discover a strong ostracism between African and Afro-American communities.