UID:
kobvindex_ZLB13810878
Format:
1 Videokassette [VHS] (104 Min.)
,
NTSC
Series Statement:
Library of African Cinema : [Video]
Content:
Daresalam is the first African feature film to focus on the civil wars convulsing the continent from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It provides compelling insights into how ordinary people around the world get swept up in extraordinary events. Its timeless story of two childhood friends turned into political foes personalizes the terrible costs of internecine strife. Daresalam is not only director Issa Serge Coelo's first feature but along with Bye Bye Africa the first feature films from Chad. Daresalam begins in the 1970s with two young men, Koni and Djimi, starting adult life as a smith and farmer in a prosperous village. Their placid existence is broken when the central government insists on buying the farmer's millet at below market prices and then browbeats villagers to pay not only taxes but also a national loan to help fight the guerilla war...Coelo makes it clear that it is the government's corruption rather than ideology which forces the villagers into the arms of the insurgents, FRAP, the Front Revolutionnaire du Peuple. At the same time he does not portray the rebels as uncompromised heroes. As Koni says. "We fight in one world so we can live in another." The rebel leaders, Adoum, Bicara, Tom and Felix, disagree on strategy and blame each other in defeat... In the end, Djimi leaves FRAP to return to his village in the liberated zone. He brings with him a war widow Achta, and a sewing machine left to him by a fallen combatant. He may not be able to "sew" together his divided country but he can attempt to start a new life for himself and his family. Just as at the film's beginning the rupture of society by civil war was signaled by the death of Djimi's young sister, its continuity and renewal is symbolized by the birth of Djimi and Achta's child at the film's end. (California Newsreel)
Note:
Arab., und franz., mit engl., Untertiteln
Language:
Arabic
Keywords:
Tschad
;
Bürgerkrieg
;
Alltag
;
Film
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Videokassette
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Videokassette
Author information:
Boom, Pierre
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