Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Brightness
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| Other authors / contributors: | Cissé, Souleymane.
Keita, Balla Moussa.
Kane, Issiaka.
Traoure, Soumba.
Sangare, Aoua.
Sanogo, Niamanto.
Sarr, Ismaila.
Sangare, Koke.
Cissé Films
Cissé Films.
Cinecom International Films.
Kino International Corporation.
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| Notes: | Originally produced in Mali by Cissé Films 1987; released in association with Cinecom International Films.
Photography, Jean-Noel Ferragut, Jean-Michel Humeau ; editor, Dounamba Coulibaly ; music, Salif Keita, Michel Portal.
Isiyaka Kane, Awa Sangare, Nyamanto Sanogo, Bala Musa Keyita, Sumba Tarawolo, Isimayila Sar, Koke Sangare, Yusufu Tenen Sise, Sidi Jalo.
DVD.
In Bambara with English subtitles ; summaries in French.
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| Summary: | A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified world order and captures the Bambara belief in time as circular, not linear, always returning to that initial "brightness" which created the world.
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| Standard no.: | 738329025922
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| Publisher's no.: | K259 Kino International
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