Feature film
Identité
Pierre-Marie Dong · 1972
Synopsis
Pierre, a young artist back from Europe, cannot manage to readjust to the country where he was born and is searching for his true personality. His sister introduces him to a group of young men, Jo, Ringo, Sancho and Bob, who are preparing in the countryside to rob a petrol station. Once the job is done, Sancho stays behind instead of fleeing with the others and strikes up a friendship with Pierre.
Context
Produced by Gabonese Radio-Télévision, the film was shot on 16 millimetre; it runs ninety minutes according to one source, one hour twenty according to the Institut français. The director wrote the screenplay himself, on an autobiographical subject, and gave the role of Pierre to Daniel Odimbossoukou. The film examines the place of the young African intellectual in his country and the dilemmas of westernised Africans; a critic cited judges its portrait of youth “not the most optimistic”.
Who it is for
A fiction feature film in French, with a large cast, from Daniel Odimbossoukou to Simon Nzang.
Prizes and reception
Prize for the most authentically African film at the Ouagadougou festival in 1973; counted among the classics of Gabonese cinema.
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