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.
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Cast
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Magou Seck
Mossane
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Isseu Niang
Mère Mingué Diouf
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Mbaye Diagne
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Safi Faye Director · Jürgen Jürges Cinematographer Andrée Davanture Editor
First release May 18, 1996 · Produced in Germany, Senegal · Languages French, Wolof
Production
Germany · Senegal
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Original language
Wolof
Spoken on screen
French · Wolof
Release dates
France · May 18, 1996
Theatrical
Germany · May 28, 1998
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No release date listed for United States.
Australia
August 3, 2023 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
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