Film Poster for Emitaï (French)
Date
1971
Credits
- Ousmane Sembène Film Director
Format
- Poster 1992
Type of Work
- Finished work 5561
Links
"During WWII, the French army drafted soldiers and commandeered supplies from even the most remote African villages. Emitai is the deceptively simple story of the silent resistance of the Diola tribe to such requisitions. While the elders pray to Emitai, the God of Thunder, the women, more pragmatically, are hiding the rice demanded by the French troops. Under the hot African sun, tensions slowly escalate, until the harrowing, seemingly fated ending. Sembène makes it clear though, that what triggers the French gendarmes' anger is less of the concealing of supplies than the villagers' firm resolve to carry out a funeral ceremony despite military orders."—https://africanfilmny.org/films/emitai/
