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Yeelen [videorecording] = Brightness / Cissé Films.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: K259 | Kino InternationalLanguage: Bambara Summary language: English Publication details: New York : Kino International, c2002.Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Brightness
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .Y445 2002
  • DT551.45.B35 Y33 2002
Production credits:
  • Director, Souleymane Cissé ; further extensive credits given in the Bambara language only.
Cast: Balla Moussa Keita, Issiaka Kane, Soumba Traoure.Summary: 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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DVDs DVDs American University in Dubai American University in Dubai AUDIO & DVD Collection DVD Yeelen (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5029391
DVDs DVDs American University in Dubai American University in Dubai AUDIO & DVD Collection DVD Yeelen (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5023137

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.

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.

In Bambara with English subtitles.

DVD.

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