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6.9/10   116 votes
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Director:
Ousmane Sembene
Writer:
Ousmane Sembene (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
12 April 1979 (Hungary) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
The Ceddo try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
"Moolaadé," "Daisy Kenyon"
 (From IFC. 25 March 2008, 6:48 AM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Tabata Ndiaye ... Princess Dior
Moustapha Yade ... Madir Fatim Fall
Ismaila Diagne ... The Kidnapper
Matoura Dia ... The King
Omar Gueye ... Jaraaf (as Oumar Gueye)
Mamadou Dioumé ... Prince Biram
Nar Modou ... Saxewar
Ousmane Camara ... Diogomay
Ousmane Sembene ... A Ceddo renamed Ibrahima
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Outsiders (literal English title)
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Runtime:
120 min
Country:
Senegal
Language:
French | Wolof
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Films Domireew more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Banned by the Senegalese government for several years, likely for the unflattering portrayal of Islam. The official reason given was that the title was incorrectly spelled in a European fashion. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: The action sets at the end of seventeenth century but the umbrella over the imam, when he is on the throne, is clearly contemporary. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in L'envers du décor (1980) more

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1 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
More important than when it was first made, 16 March 2002
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Author: Robert Aber (DoctorBawb@sbcglobal.net) from Los ANGELES

Ok - Ceddo starts slow and I'm as impatient as the next guy - even if that was then, this is 25-yrs after. No matter.

In a second recent viewing, the RC Missionaries were just as fanatatical, greedy and stupid as I'd recalled. The Muslims were as fanatic, greedy and eager to turn a buck (dinar?) by selling off any Senegalese who disn't - WHAM! - adopt Islam. Buyers were slave-trading Portuguese RCs who hadn't been quite dumb enough to be slaughtered earlier in the flick by the invading Osama-style Muslims.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates of Harvard may have missed "Ceddo" - but Skip appears to get the point. Maybe. My three kids - Herself and li'l Kobe and MJ - me harder sells. But they're at "that age." Fine: they think I'm at "that age," too. Again, no matter.

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