Black Girl (1965)

Film details

Featuring

Toto Bissainthe Thérèse N'bissine Diop Anne-Marie Jelinek
Countries

France Senegal
Year

1965
Genre

Drama
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

La Noire de… Original French
A Negress from... Alternative

Introduction

Sembène’s account of a young Senegalese woman who takes a job in the home of a bourgeois French family recalls Jean Rouch’s tales of everyday struggle in urban West Africa. But, crucially, the perspective is completely that of the African, not the Africanist (who Sembène once accused of ‘looking at us like insects’).

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - voice-over
    
    Toto Bissainthe
  - Diouana
    
    Thérèse N'bissine Diop
  - Madame
    
    Anne-Marie Jelinek
  - Monsieur
    
    Robert Fontaine
  - the young man
    
    Momar Nar Sene
  - boy with mask
    
    Ibrahima Boy
  - dubbed voice of Diouana
    
    Toto Bissainthe
  - dubbed voice of master
    
    Robert Marcy
  - dubbed voice of madame
    
    Sophie Leclerc
  - guest
    
    Bernard Delbaro
  - guest
    
    Nicole Donati
  - guest
    
    Raymond Lemery
  - guest
    
    Suzanne Lemery
  - child
    
    Philippe
  - child
    
    Sophie
  - child
    
    Damien
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Ousmane Sembène
  - Production Company
    
    Filmi Doomireew
  - Production Company
    
    Actualités Françaises
  - Participation
    
    Ministère de la Coopération
  - Production Manager
    
    André Zwobada
  - Assistant Director
    
    Ibrahima Barro
  - Assistant Director
    
    Pathé Diop
  - Script
    
    Ousmane Sembène
  - Director of Photography
    
    Christian Lacoste
  - Editor
    
    André Gaudier

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