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The Wind (1982)

Finye (original title)
| Drama | 24 September 1983 (USA)
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Finye tackles the generation gap in post-colonial West Africa. Its heroine is the pot smoking daughter of a provincial military governor who falls in love with a fellow university student, the descendent of one of Mali's chiefs.

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Fousseyni Sissoko ...
Bah
Goundo Guissé ...
Batrou
Balla Moussa Keita ...
Le Gouverneur Sangaré
Ismaila Sarr ...
le grand-père de Bah
Omou Diarra ...
La Troisième épouse
Ismaila Cissé ...
Seydou
Massitan Ballo ...
La mère de Bah
Dioncounda Kone ...
La grand-mère de Bah
Yacouba Samabaly ...
La commissaire de police
Dounamba Dany Coulibaly ...
La femme Peul
Oumou Koné
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Finye tackles the generation gap in post-colonial West Africa. Its heroine is the pot smoking daughter of a provincial military governor who falls in love with a fellow university student, the descendent of one of Mali's chiefs.

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