Cinema
Petanqui
Kozoloa Yéo · 1983
Synopsis
In the middle of a drought, Petanqui runs the distribution of food aid and lives largely off it: a fine house, mistresses, an official car. Accused of embezzlement, he is defended in court by his own son, a qualified lawyer returned from France, and the trial exposes, well beyond his own case, the corruption of the entire state apparatus.
Context
The film adapts 15 ans, ça suffit, a novel published in 1977 by the Nigerien writer Amadou Ousmane about a famine and about the powerful who look for someone to blame for it. Co-produced by Les Films de la Montagne, the radio and television office of Niger and Ciprofilm, it was shot in Côte d'Ivoire, Niger and France; Sidiki Bakaba and Douta Seck are its main performers.
Who it is for
A feature film of one hundred and eight minutes, in French and pidgin, built around a trial.
Prizes and reception
Its director's first feature film; it is now distributed in Europe by the Swiss distributor Trigon-Film.
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