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Ousmane Sembene

Highest Rated: 100% Guelwaar (1992)

Lowest Rated: 78% Faat Kiné (2000)

Birthday: Jan 1, 1923

Birthplace: Ziguenchor, Casamance, Senegal

The first film director from an African country to achieve international recognition, Ousmane Sembene remains the major figure in the rise of an independent post-colonial African cinema. Sembene's roots were not, as might be expected, in the educated elite. After working as a mechanic and bricklayer, he joined the Free French forces in 1942, serving in Africa and France. In 1946, he returned to Dakar, where he participated in the great railway strike of 1947. The next year he returned to France, where he worked in a Citroen factory in Paris, and then, for ten years, on the dock in Marseilles. During this time Sembene became very active in trade union struggles and began an extraordinarily successful writing career. His first novel, "Le Docker Noir," was published in 1956 to critical acclaim. Since then, he has produced a number of works which have placed him in the foreground of the international literary scene.

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Highest rated movies

100% 86% Guelwaar
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100% 92% Camp de Thiaroye
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100% 75% The Money Order
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99% 84% Moolaadé
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94% 76% Black Girl
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92% 85% Film, the Living Record of Our Memory Watchlist
91% 41% Sembene!
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91% 63% Xala
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80% 64% Ceddo
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78% 81% Faat Kiné
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
92% 85% Film, the Living Record of Our Memory Self $8.7K 2021
91% 41% Sembene! Unknown (Character) $28.1K 2015
99% 84% Moolaadé Director,
Writer
$214.6K 2004
78% 81% Faat Kiné Director $30.1K 2000
100% 86% Guelwaar Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 1992
100% 92% Camp de Thiaroye Director,
Writer
- 1988
80% 64% Ceddo A Ceddo renamed Ibrahima (Character),
Director,
Writer
- 1977
91% 63% Xala Director - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Gods Director,
Writer
- 1972
100% 75% The Money Order Director,
Writer
- 1968
94% 76% Black Girl Director - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Niaye Director - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Borom Sarret Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 1963
No Score Yet 65% Borom Sarret Director - 1963