Feature film
Djogo
Les Couilles de l'éléphant
Henri-Joseph Koumba Bididi · 2000
Synopsis
Alevina, a deputy from a city in Africa and a womanizer, is seeking a new mandate in a country that has moved to multiparty politics. Exasperated, his wife consults a healer to make him less unfaithful, and he becomes impotent, which threatens his re-election. He falls in love with Wissi, a young woman of modest means, to the scandal of his constituency; his opponents take advantage, his daughter fights him in the press, and Philippe Leclerc, a young communications adviser from Paris, arrives to take the campaign back in hand.
Context
Co-produced by Gabon and France, notably with the Centre national du cinéma gabonais, the film was shot entirely in Gabon, in forty-nine days. It was to be called Le Blues de l'éléphant. Jean-Claude M'Paka plays Alevina, Nadège Beausson-Diagne Wissi, and a pioneer of Gabonese cinema plays Kouka; the music is by Wasis Diop. The film opened the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou in 2001 and was released in France on 13 February 2002, running ninety-eight minutes.
Who it is for
A satirical comedy in French, one hour thirty-eight minutes long, released in cinemas in France in 2002.
Prizes and reception
Prize for best music at Fespaco in 2001; Olivia Marsaud praises a jubilant satire, but the critical reception remains mixed.
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