Désiré Écaré

Désiré Écaré was born on 15 April 1939 in Treichville, a district of Abidjan. He left for France in 1961 and studied drama before entering the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. His first film, shot in Paris about African students in exile, won the grand prize for young cinema at Hyères in 1968, and in 1970 he directed a second film, a satirical one, about the Black people of Paris. Back in his country, he took many years, for lack of money, to complete the third. He died in Abidjan on 16 February 2009.

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• CinemaFaces of WomenVisages de femmesDésiré Écaré · 1985Cinema