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Xala is a senegalais film of genre Comedy directed by Ousmane Sembène released in USA on 1 october 1975 with Douta Seck
Xala (1977)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 october 1975
Length 2h3
Directed by Ousmane Sembène
OriginSenegal
Genres Comedy
Rating66%
Xala ([ˈxala], Wolof for "temporary sexual impotence") is a 1975 Senegalese film directed by Ousmane Sembène. It is an adaptation of Sembène's 1973 novel of the same name. The film depicts El Hadji, a businessman in Senegal, who is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife. The film satirizes the corruption in African post-independence governments; El Hadji's impotence symbolizes the failure of such governments to be useful at all.
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El Hadji Abdoukader Beye, a Senegalese businessman, takes on a third wife, thereby demonstrating his social and economic success. On the wedding night he discovers that he is incapable of consummating the marriage; he has become impotent. At the beginning, he suspects his two wives, without realizing that he walks by the true guilty party every day. The film criticizes the African leaders' attitude after Independence, underlining their greed and their inability to step away from foreign influences.Actors
Douta Seck
(Gorgui)
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