Ceddo

Name: Ceddo
Genre: Drama
Released: 1978-02-16
Duration: 117 min
Cast: Mamadou Dioumé, Tabata Ndiaye, Ousmane Camara, Omar Gueye, Ousmane Sembène

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Release Date

2/16/1978

Runtime

117 mins

Genres

Drama

Overview

The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam.

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Released

Original Language

Wolof

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A fierce, contemplative meditation on cultural resistance and the collision of worldviews in 17th-century Senegal. This is a political film dressed as drama, where colonization and religious conversion become acts of erasure that a people refuse to accept.