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Director
  
Djibril Diop Mambety

Film series
  
Tales of Ordinary People

Writer
  
Djibril Diop Mambety

Language
  
Wolof

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Short, Comedy

Duration
  

Country
  
Senegal

Le Franc movie poster

Release date
  
August 1994 (Locarno Film Festival)September 11, 1995 (1995-09-11) (Toronto Film Festival)

Initial release
  
October 9, 1995 (New York City)

Cast
  
Dieye Ma Dieye
(Marigo),
Aminata Fall
(Landlady),
Demba Bâ
(The Dwarf)

Music director
  
Issa Cissokho, Moussa NDiaye, Dieye Ma Dieye

Similar movies
  
Set in Senegal, Comedies

Le professeur moustapha kasse sur le franc cfa


Le Franc is a 1994 Senegalese short comedy film, directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty.

Contents

Le Franc movie scenes

Le Franc is about Marigo, a penniless musician living in a shanty town, relentlessly harassed by his formidable landlady.

This film uses the French government's 50% devaluation of the West African CFA franc in 1994, and the resulting hardships as the basis for a whimsical commentary on using the lottery for survival.

Le Franc was originally intended as the first film of a trilogy under the title, Tales of Ordinary People. However, Mambety’s untimely death in 1998 prevented the completion of the third film.

Synopsis

Marigo the musician dreams with his instrument – a congoma – confiscated by his landlady because he never pays the rent. He gets hold of a lottery ticket and decides to put it in a safe place while he waits for the draw: he glues it to the back of his door. The night of the draw, fortune blinds Marigo, he is the proud owner of the winning ticket. He already sees himself as a millionaire, with a thousand congomas, an orchestra and a private plane… He even has visions of the charismatic Aminata Fall, symbol of capitalism in Africa. But there is small problem; the ticket is glued to the door…

Cast

  • Demba Bâ as "Dwarf"
  • Dieye Ma Dieye as "Marigo"
  • Aminata Fall as "Landlady"

    • Release

    Le Franc was released on DVD coupled with La petite vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl who Sold the Sun) and is distributed by California Newsreel Productions.

    References

    Le Franc Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Le Franc IMDb Le Franc themoviedb.org