Lucy's Revenge
6.2
After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he's also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.
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Tom Novembre
Georges, the bad white spirit
Known for
An American Werewolf in Paris
The Sheltering Sky
Pierre-Loup Rajot
Father Edouard
Known for
A Nos Amours
Waiter!
Rodolphe Burger
Janusz Mrozowski
Evelyne Georges
Ann-Gisel Glass
Sister Stella
Known for
Rats: Night of Terror
Detective
Madeleine Vincensini
Kat Onoma
Aïssa Maïga
Lucy
Known for
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The African Doctor
Adrienne Koutouan
Albertine
Also in
Maman
There's a Heist in the Village
Désiré Koumsongo
Adama
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Bala Moussa
Cissé
Also in
A Dance for Heroes
Janusz Mrozowski Director
United States release May 20, 1999 · Produced in France, Burkina Faso · Original title La revanche de Lucy
Production
Direction de la Cinematographie Nationale
Production
France · Burkina Faso
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Languages
Original title
La revanche de Lucy
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · June 17, 1998
Theatrical
United States · May 20, 1999
Seattle International Film Festival
Argentina
November 22, 1999 · Mar del Plata Film Festival
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