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Mossane (1996)

Mossane (1996)

Drama
Release Date: 1996, May 18
Directors: Safi Faye
Countries: Germany, Senegal
Cast: Moussa Cissé, Isseu Niang, Magou Seck, Moustapha Yade, Abou Camara, Alioune Konaré, Alpha Diouph, Ibou N'Dong, Médoune Seck, Mbaye Diagne, Daouda Lam, Seynabou Guèye

Overview:

A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors; however, she is in love a poor student who has returned to the village while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.

Keywords:

woman director