Tasuma: The Fighter - film screening (film awarded at FESPACO)

  • Humanitas Afrika
  • 15/09/09 18:30

Sogo Sanon has been trying to claim his military pension for decades; his plight reminds us the French military filled its ranks with Blacks from numerous French colonies in Africa. Finally assured that his pension will arrive "tomorrow," Sogo Sanon buys a mill to lighten the burden of the village women who must grind their grain, by hand, on a daily basis. Of course, the pension does not arrive. In what seems like a turn towards the violent, Sogo Sanon takes a hostage and forces him to write a letter to the long-dead General Charles de Gaulle. Never fear. All is resolved when the women and children mount a crusade in support of the village elder. The songs are wonderful and make a major contribution to the feel-good tone of a film you may want to see more than once.—Nick Salerno

In French and More with English subtitles.

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