Xala

Xala

Infobox Film
name = Xala


caption = DVD Cover
director = Ousmane Sembène
writer = Ousmane Sembène
music= Samba Diabara Samb| starring = Thierno Leye,
Seune Samb
producer = Paulin Vieyra
distributor = New Yorker Films (USA)
released = July 1975 (Moscow Film Festival)
October 1, 1975 (USA)
runtime = 123 min
language = French / Wolof
country= SEN
amg_id = 1:126439
imdb_id = 0073915

"Xala" is a 1975 Senegalese film directed by Ousmane Sembène. It is an adaptation of Sembène's own 1973 novel of the same name. The title means 'The Curse' in the Wolof language

The film depicts El Hadji, a politician in Senegal, who is cursed with impotence upon the day of his marriage to his third wife. The film satirizes the corruption in African post-independence governments; El Hadji's impotence symbolizes the failure of such governments to break away from foreign influence and the greed of their own politicians. [http://film.guardian.co.uk/Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,414318,00.html]

External links

*imdb title|id=0073915
* [http://film.guardian.co.uk/Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,414318,00.html Guardian Review]


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