Timité Bassori

Timité Bassori was born on 30 December 1933 in Aboisso, in the south-east of Ivory Coast. After the technical college in Abidjan, he left in 1956 for Paris to study theatre at the Cours Simon, and there founded the Griots company with young African actors. Back home, he made documentaries, acted, wrote short stories and produced other directors' films. The Karlovy Vary festival presents him as one of the fathers of Ivorian cinema.

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• CinemaThe Woman with the KnifeLa Femme au couteauTimité Bassori · 1969Cinema