Cinema
Djeli, a Modern Tale
Djéli, conte d'aujourd'hui
Fadika Kramo-Lanciné · 1981
Synopsis
Fanta and Karamoko Kouyaté, students from the same village, are in love and talk of marriage. But Karamoko comes from a family of griots, while Fanta belongs to one of the most illustrious families of the Mandingo nobility: in the name of tradition, the two families refuse the union. Through a flashback, the film goes back to the origin of the prohibition, then follows the two young people's attempts to get around it.
Context
Filming began in 1978 with the help of a team of television technicians, and the film, its author's first feature, was only completed in 1981. It sets the nobility against the griots in Malinké society, and Ouattara Yao Joachim plays the lead role. The Trinity College, Cambridge catalogue says it is spoken in Dioula; the film has since been shown at the Festival des 3 Continents and at the São Paulo Film Festival.
Who it is for
A fiction feature film of about an hour and a half, in colour, on a caste conflict within Malinké society.
Prizes and reception
Étalon de Yennenga, International Critics' Prize and Prize of the International Catholic Organisation for Cinema at the seventh Fespaco, in 1981.
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