Dakan
November 7, 2008Destiny
Call Number: VHS00318
by Mohamed Camara; Aboubacar Touré; Mamady Mory Camara; Cécile Bois; Koumba Diakité; Kadé Seck; Films du 20ème (Firm); Sept Cinéma (Firm); California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French and Malinké with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1997 (86 mins.);
Summary: This first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa is a contemporary African reinterpretation of the age-old Romeo and Juliet conflict between love and social convention. When Sori and Manga tell their parents they are in love, they respond that, “It’s impossible; since time began, it’s never happened. Boys don’t do that.”
Also: See the George Cukor version, Romeo and Juliet (VHS00127); the Franco Zeffirelli version, Romeo & Juliet (VHS00146); the Baz Luhrmann version, Romeo + Juliet (VHS00060); the Alan Horrox version (VHS00752); the Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise interpretation, West Side Story (VHS00557);
OCLC #: 37957299
Added: November 7, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
