A Senegalese rifleman and sergeant in the colonial army, Sarzan, is back in his homeland and faces a remarkable change in Senegalese society after independence. Thiam took the character from a novel by Birago Diop, generating a curious African kind of formalism.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Senegal
- Year
- 1963
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 29'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
