Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All films > Films Drama > Letter from My Village
Letter from My Village is a senegalais film of genre Drama directed by Safi Faye with Safi Faye

Letter from My Village (1976)

Letter from My Village
If you like this film, let us know!
Directed by
OriginSenegal
Genres Drama,    Documentary
Rating70% 3.5406853.5406853.5406853.5406853.540685

Kaddu Beykat (also known as Letter from My Village and Lettre paysanne) is a 1975 Senegalese film directed by Safi Faye. It was the first feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman to be commercially distributed and brought international recognition for its director. Centred on a romance, it chronicles the daily lives of people in a rural Senegalese village.



^ "Production Credits". Allmovie. Retrieved 2008-05-10.

^ Ukadike, p.30

^ Spaas, p.185

Synopsis

Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Columba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba. He goes to Senegal's capital city, Dakar, to try to earn more money and is exploited there. He returns to the villagers and shares his experiences of the city with the other men. The story, which shows the daily lives of the villagers, is told in the form of a letter to a friend from a villager, voiced by Faye.

Actors

Safi Faye

(Villager (voice))
Trailer of Letter from My Village

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Letter from My Village

There are 1 films with the same actors, 1 films with the same director, 69596 with the same cinematographic genres (including 1037 with exactly the same 2 genres than Letter from My Village), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Letter from My Village, you will probably like those similar films :
Mossane
Mossane (1996)
, 1h45
Directed by Safi Faye
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Rating70% 3.5472853.5472853.5472853.5472853.547285
Mossane (Magou Seck) is a beautiful 14-year-old girl from a rural Serer village, beloved by many including her own brother and Fara, a poor university student. Although she has long been promised in marriage to the wealthy Diogaye, Mossane defies her parents' wishes and falls in love with Fara. On her wedding day, she refuses to marry Diogaye and tragedy ensues.
Little by Little
Little by Little (1970)
, 1h36
Directed by Jean Rouch
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Damouré Zika, Safi Faye, Moustapha Alassane
Rating72% 3.6134153.6134153.6134153.6134153.613415
Damouré, qui dirige à Ayorou (Niger) avec Lam et Illo la société d'import-export Petit à petit décide de construire un « grand Building » dans son village. Il part à Paris pour voir « comment on peut vivre dans des maisons à étages ». Dans la capitale, il découvre les curieuses façons de vivre et de penser des Parisiens qu'il décrit dans des « Lettres persanes » envoyées régulièrement à ces compagnons, jusqu'à ce que ceux-ci, le croyant devenu fou, envoient Lam le rejoindre pour se rendre compte sur place...
In the Wake of the Bounty
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)
, 1h6
Directed by Charles Chauvel
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Errol Flynn, Charles Chauvel, Elsa Chauvel
Rating47% 2.3783352.3783352.3783352.3783352.378335
Chauvel's film uses introductory enacted scenes showing the mutiny, followed by documentary footage, anthropological style, of the mutineers' descendants on Pitcairn Island. Chauvel also used footage of Polynesian women dancers; and film of an underwater shipwreck, filmed with a glass bottomed boat, which he believed was the Bounty but was probably not. This was Chauvel's first 'talkie' and he had clearly at this stage not yet learned to direct actors: the dialogue is very stiff and amateurish. The use of long sections of documentary footage with a voice over, combined with acted scenes, is similar to the hybrid silent and talking pictures that were produced during the transition to sound. It also represents the combination of interests of the director, and he returned to documentary toward the end of his career with the BBC television series Walkabout. Despite the poorly written dialogue, the documentary sections retain their excellence. A return to enactments at the end of the film, with one scripted modern scene in which a child suffers because of the lack of regular ship visits which could have taken the child to hospital, probably sought to make the film a useful voice for the Pitcairn Island community, who had been generous with their participation.
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
, 1h31
Directed by Errol Morris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Prison films, Films about racism, Films about religion, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films about Jews and Judaism, Documentary films about World War II, Documentary films about law enforcement, Négationnisme
Actors Errol Morris
Rating74% 3.7450253.7450253.7450253.7450253.745025
Using film made at American prisons, Leuchter talked about his upbringing where his father was a corrections officer. Through his family associations, young Leuchter claimed he was able to witness an execution performed in an electric chair. Leuchter's impression of the event was that the electric chairs used by American prisons were unsafe and often ineffective. The event led him to design modifications to the device that were adopted by many American states.
24 City
24 City (2008)
, 1h52
Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Joan Chen, Zhao Tao, Lü Liping, Chen Jianbin
Rating70% 3.545223.545223.545223.545223.54522
Une cité ouvrière est détruite au profit d’un complexe d’appartements de luxe.
Peddlers
Peddlers (2012)
, 1h56
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Gulshan Devaiah, Nishikant Kamat, Kriti Malhotra, Nimrat Kaur
Rating68% 3.4117053.4117053.4117053.4117053.411705
The film is set in Mumbai, and revolves around 20-year-old destitute boys who get trapped in the drug trade and a young cop, who tracks them.
Dummy Jim
Dummy Jim (2013)
, 1h30
Origin Ecosse
Genres Drama, Documentary
Rating64% 3.2048453.2048453.2048453.2048453.204845
James Duthie, jeune homme sourd écossais, quitte à vélo son village de pêcheur en mai 1951 pour voyager jusqu'au cercle arctique. Par la suite il raconte son voyage de 3 mois dans le livre I Cycled into the Arctic Circle, qui a inspiré le film Dummy Jim. Proche du documentaire, ce dernier est constitué d'un montage d'archives, d'animations et de bribes de fictions.