Djibril Diop Mambéty

Djibril Diop Mambéty was born on 23 January 1945 in Colobane, near Dakar, the son of a Muslim religious figure. An actor at the Daniel-Sorano national theatre, he was dismissed from it, and learned cinema nowhere other than by making films. In thirty years he managed to shoot only two feature films and a handful of shorts. The brother of the musician Wasis Diop and the uncle of the filmmaker Mati Diop, he died in Paris on 23 July 1998, aged fifty-three, while he was finishing the second part of a trilogy about ordinary people.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmTouki BoukiDjibril Diop Mambéty · 1973Cinema