Skip to content

Kaddu Beykat

Safi Faye
1975 Senegal 95 minutes French; Serer

In order to pay his fiancée’s dowry, Ngor has to look for work in the town, as his harvest was poor. He encounters nothing but unemployment or exploitation, and returns to his own folk to tell them of his experience.

Safi Faye

Née en 1943 au Sénégal, elle est institutrice puis interprète un rôle dans Petit à petit de Jean Rouch. A réalisé :

La Passante, 1972 ; Kaddu Beykat (Lettre paysanne), 1975 ; Fad’Jal (Grand-père raconte), 1979 ; Mossane, 1996

Production :
Safi Films
Editing :
Andrée Davanture
Sound :
Maya Bracher; Charles Diouf
Photography :
Patrick Fabry

In the same section