Year of Production
1966
Country of Production
Senegal
Running Time
65 min
Language
In French with English subtitles
Cast

Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine

Festivals/Awards

Tanit d'Or - Carthage Film Festival 1966

Prix Jean Vigo 1966

La Noire de…
Black Girl
Ousmane Sembène

A Senegalese woman is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but finds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family moves to the south of France. In her new country, she is constantly made aware of her race and mistreated by her employers.

تتوق امرأة سنغالية إلى حياة أفضل في الخارج. تعمل مربيةً لدى عائلة فرنسية، غير أنها سرعان ما تدرك أنّ مهامها تقتصر على العمل كخادمة فقط بعد أن انتقلت العائلة إلى جنوب فرنسا. في هذا البلد الجديد، مصيرها هو العمل لدى عائلة تعاملها معاملة سيئة وتذكرها بعرقها ومكانتها بلا هوادة.

 

Restored by Cineteca di Bologna/ L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with the Sembène Estate, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, INA, Eclair laboratories and the Centre National de Cinématographie. Restoration funded by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project.

 

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