Safrana or Freedom of Speech

Safrana ou le droit à la parole

France, Mauritania

1978

110 Min

Color

French

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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DP Frédéric Uariot, Daniel Canfrère

CAST Med Hondo, Carrie Sembene, Jean-Baptiste Tiemele, Tamango F. N'Djoumouni, John Ousseini, Denis Parichon, Bouba Touré, Katia Nuisser

MUSIC Moussa N'Dongo, Seydina Insa Wade, René Parker

SOUND Jean-Pierre Laforce, Jean-Pierre Fénié

Synopsis

Four young African workers attempt to break the spell of their poverty-stricken lives in Paris by looking to small farmers on the Gold Coast for information adaptable to their own country. —Africulture

Director

Sidney Sokhona

Sidney Sokhon is one of the founders of Mauritanian film. He has directed two feature films: Nationality: immigrated in 1975 and Safrana or the right to speak in 1977. He has since remained an important cultural and political figure inside Mauritania.