Guelwaar

Credits

Name: Guelwaar

Country: Senegal

Year of publication: 1992

Color: color

Language : OF m. dt. UT

Duration: 105 Minuten

Direction: Sembène, Ousmane

Screenplay: Sembène, Ousmane

Camera: Gentil, Dominique

Editing: Debril, Marie-Aimée

Sound: BÂ, Moctar Ndiouga

Actor: Doss, Thierno Ndiaye; Seck, Omar; Camara, Abou

Abstract

When the body of Guelwaar ("the noble one"), a political activist, philanderer, and pillar of the Christian community, is mistakenly buried in a Muslim cemetery, the result is a perfect storm of bureaucratic red tape, family disputes, and religious conflict. As usual with Sembene, Guelwaar is many films in one: black comedy, political allegory, social satire, family drama, and, at the end, thunderous indictment of the twin evils of homegrown African corruption and neocolonial Western aid. Guelwaar, a proud man, was rejecting corruption and neo-imperialism (which kill senegalese and african pride), is buried in a Muslim cemetary. His family, his community will face a religious conflict. Guelwaar is a Christian. (Africultures)