Mahaleo

  • Cesar Paes
  • Raymond Rajaonarivelo
  • 2005
  • France
  • 102 minutes
  • French; Malagasy
  • © Laterit Productions
    © Laterit Productions

Mahaleo is the most popular music group in Madagascar with thirty years of unbroken success. Moreover, these forerunners of the Malagasy blues also have jobs: doctor, surgeon, farmer, sociologist and parliamentary deputy… “Through Mahaleo and their music, the film takes a look at the situation in Madagascar at a critical moment of its history, after a political crisis that almost plunged the country into civil war.” (Marie-Clémence Paes)

  • Production : Marie-Clémence Paes for Laterit productions; Cobra Films; Arte France; RTBF
  • Distribution : Laterit productions
  • Editing : Agnès Contensou
  • Sound : Eric Bouillon; Bruno Hoff-Blanc; Andry Raonarivony
  • Photography : Cesar Paes; Raymond Rajaonarivelo