Film directed by Souleymane Cissé (Mali, 1978, 93 minutes).
Cycle 'A Reflection of Africa. Abderrahmane Sissako and Souleymane Cissé'.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
Synopsis. A young man who works as bar - loading luggage at the station - he befriends an engineer. The latter takes him under his wing and helps him find work in the factory he manages, where he tries to apply the liberal ideas he has learned in Europe. When the young man sets himself up as a union leader against the company owner, his troubles begin and he comes into conflict with his friend the director.
Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 1978 Locarno International Film Festival.
Winner of the 1979 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou.
Awarded the Golden Montgolfier at the 1979 Nantes Three Continents Festival.
Film programmed in collaboration with the Institut Français de Sevilla.
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