Black Girl (1966)

196659mdir. Ousmane SembèneFrenchFrance, Senegaldrama film

Note: this print runs 59 minutes against a recorded 65 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Pierre Laville, Robert Fontaine, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Mbissine Thérèse Diop

Directed by Ousmane Sembène

Black Girl still

Black Girl (French: La noire de..., lit. 'Black girl of...') is a 1966 drama film, written and directed by Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène in his feature directorial debut. It is based on a short story from Sembène's 1962 collection Voltaique, which was in turn inspired by a real life incident.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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