Thierno Faty Sow and Ousmane Sembène

Thierno Faty Sow was born on 23 December 1941 in Thiès. He learned the trade in Paris, at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français, then worked for television, in France as in his own country. He made short documentaries and several personal films between 1970 and 1981, about a peasant and his village, about a soldier who chooses to stay in France after independence, and about the mercenaries who made and unmade the regimes of the continent. An occasional actor, he died in Dakar on 6 December 2009.

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• Feature filmCamp de ThiaroyeThierno Faty Sow and Ousmane Sembène · 1988Cinema