Mossane

A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors; however, she is in love a poor student who has returned to the village while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.

Country:

Germany,

Senegal

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

105 minutes

Year:

1996

Director:

Safi Faye

Cast:

Mossane

Mère Mingué Diouf

Samba

Oncle Baak

Fara

Crew:

Director

Music

Writer

Director of Photography

Sound Engineer