Au pays des mages noirs

  • Jean Sauvy
  • Jean Rouch
  • Pierre Ponty
  • 1946
  • France
  • 12 minutes
  • French
  • DR
    DR

A civil engineer and ethnologist, Jean Rouch was 29 when he spent nine months shooting his first film, as he went down the River Niger on a pirogue. Au Pays des Mages Noirs was the first French film shot on 16 mm and blown-up to 35 mm for a theatrical release.

  • Production : Actualités Françaises
  • Photography : Jean Rouch