Yeelen
Yeelen is a film of the relisator Mali in Souleymane Cissé left in 1987.
Synopsis
Yeelen recalls an initiatory course at one nondefinite time. An young man will receive the knowledge intended to ensure the control of the forces to him which surround it, this knowledge that the Bambaras are transmitted since always. The father does not support to see his son becoming his equal…
Data sheet
- Realizer: Souleymane Cissé
- Scenario: Souleymane Cissé
- Producing:
- Music: Michel Portal with the participation of Salif Keïta
- Image: Jean-Christmas Ferragut and Jean-Michel Humeau
- Sound: Daniel Olivier and Michel Mellier
- Assembly: Andree Davanture, Marie-Christine Miqueau, Jeany Frenck, Seipati Bulane
- Costumes: Kossa Mody Keïta
- Lasted: 106 minutes
- Kind:
- Coming out date: 1987
Distribution
- Issiaka Konaté : Nianankoro
- Aoua Sangaré : Attou
- Balla Foamed Keïta: Rouma Boli
- Soumba Traoré : Mâh
- Ismaïla Sarr : Youssouf
- Ténin Cissé : The little boy
Nominations and rewards
- Price of the jury to the Cannes festival 1987
Matter of Souleymane Cissé
This film is with the research on the mysterious side of the man. Why arrive from there until giving death to its own blood? Here what I wanted to show.