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I, a Negro

I, a Negro

IMDB:

7.3
I, a Negro

Released

3/12/1959

Duration

1h 10m

Genre

Documentary

Country

France

Cast

Oumarou Ganda, Petit Touré, Alassane Maiga

Overview

Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.

Cast

Oumarou Ganda

Edward G. Robinson

Oumarou Ganda

Petit Touré

Eddie Constantine

Petit Touré

Alassane Maiga

Tarzan

Alassane Maiga

Amadou Demba

Elite

Amadou Demba

Gambi

Dorothy Lamour

Gambi

Seydou Guede

Le facteur

Seydou Guede

Karidyo Faoudou

Petit Jules

Karidyo Faoudou

Edmond Bernus

L'italien

Edmond Bernus