TY  - ADVS
AU  - Cissé,Souleymane
AU  - Keita,Balla Moussa
AU  - Kane,Issiaka
AU  - Traore,Soumba
ED  - Cissé Films.
ED  - Kino International Corporation.
TI  - Yeelen: Brightness 
AV  - PN1997 .Y445 2002  
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Kino International
KW  - Bambara (African people)
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Feature films
N1  - Originally produced in Mali by Cissé Films 1987; released in association with Cinecom International Films; Director, Souleymane Cissé ; further extensive credits given in the Bambara language only; Balla Moussa Keita, Issiaka Kane, Soumba Traoure
N2  - A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified world order and captures the Bambara belief in time as circular, not linear, always returning to that initial "brightness" which created the world
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