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Sembene! 2015

Sembene! Director : Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman

Sembene! Plot

Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.
Sembene! is a documentary, biography movie starring Ousmane Sembène. It is directed by Samba Gadjigo.

Sembene! Cast

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  • 5/5
By MovieMavenGal

Before the film Sembene! began, Samba Gadjigo told us that until the age of 12 he had never seen a movie, seen television or heard a radio in his village in Senegal. All he had were storytellers. He said he was giving us a gift - the story of Ousmane Sembene. And what a gift it was.

My husband and I knew absolutely nothing about the father of African cinema, Sembene. He started life as the son of a fisherman in Senegal. He left Africa for France and was a dockworker. He broke his back when a huge bag a coffee landed on it, and during the 6 months he spent lying on his stomach in a hospital, he educated himself, reading as much French literature as his union's library contained. He...

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