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Djibril Diop Mambéty
Dakar, Senegal
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, t…
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Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family near Dakar, Senegal's capital city, Mambéty was Wolof. He died in 1998 while being treated for lung cancer in a Paris hospital.
Filmography
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2023
Cinema is Magic
Movie Self
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2008
Mambéty For Ever
Movie Self
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2002
Mambéty
Movie Self
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1999
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Movie Director
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1996
Grandma's Grammar
Movie Himself
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1995
Le Franc
Movie Director
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1992
Hyenas
Movie The Judge
- 1991
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1991
10,000 Years of Cinema
Movie
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1989
The Making of Yaaba
Movie Director
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1973
Touki Bouki
Movie Writer
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1971
Fight in Vain
Movie Assistant Director
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1970
Badou Boy
Movie
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1969
Contras' City
Movie
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1964
The Death Knell
Movie Narrator
