and then there was light
With
Sigalon Sagna, Saly Badji, Binta Cissé, Marie-Christine Dième
Synopsis
The film depicts daily life in an Senegalian village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain, et cetera, while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers, is slowly encroaching.
Awards
- Grand Prix Spécial du Jury à la — Mostra de Venise 1989
Credits
- Screenplay
- Otar Iosseliani
- Cinematography
- Robert Alazraki
- Editing
- Otar Iosseliani, Ursula West, Marie-Agnès Blum
- Sound
- Alix Comte
- Production design
- Yves Brover-Rabinovici
- Costumes
- Charlotte David
- Music
- Nicolas Zourabichvili
- Produced by
- Les Films du Triangle, Direkt Film GmbH, La Sept, RAI - Radio Televisione Italiana
- French distribution
- Les Films du Losange
- International sales
- Les Films du Losange
Technical details
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 1h43
- Nationalities
- France, Allemagne, Italie
- Picture format
- 1.66
- Sound format
- Mono
- Premiere
- Mostra de Venise 1989