Ceddo
In precolonial Senegal, members of the Ceddo (or “outsiders”) kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges loyalty to an ascendant Islamic faction that plans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and slave traders from Europe also playing a role in the conflict. Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ceddo is an ambitious, multilayered epic that explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, religious colonization, political expediency, and individual freedom.
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Cast
- Tabara Ndiaye
- Princess Dior Yacine
- Alioune Fall
- Imam
- Moustapha Yade
- Madior Fatim Fall
- Mamadou N’Diaye Diagne
- Ceddo kidnapper
- Ousmane Camara
- Jogomây, elder Ceddo
- Nar Sene
- Saxewar
- Makhourédia Guèye
- King Demba Wâr
- Mamadou Dioum
- Prince Birima
- Oumar Gueye
- Jarâf, the king’s mediator
Credits
- Director
- Ousmane Sembène
- Written by
- Ousmane Sembène
- Cinematography
- Georges Caristan
- Cinematography
- Orlando Lopez
- Cinematography
- Bara Diokhane
- Cinematography
- Seydina O. Gaye
- Edited by
- Florence Eymon
- Edited by
- Dominique Blain
- Original music by
- Manu Dibango
- Art direction
- Alpha W. Diallo
- Director of production
- Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
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