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City of Contrasts is a senegalais film of genre Documentary directed by Djibril Diop Mambety with Djibril Diop Mambety

City of Contrasts (1969)

Contras' City

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Length 21minutes
OriginSenegal
Rating68% 3.413013.413013.413013.413013.41301

Contras'city is a Senegalese 1968 short documentary film.

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A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop Mambéty) and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz. As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse-drawn wagon, we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital, discovering contrast after contrast: A small African community waiting at the Church's door, Muslims praying on the sidewalk, the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings, the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market.

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Djibril Diop Mambety
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