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Cast
Oumarou Ganda | ... |
Robinson (Narrator)
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Gambi | ... |
Dorothy Lamour
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Petit Touré | ... |
Eddie Constantine
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Alassane Maiga | ... |
Tarzan
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Amadou Demba | ... |
Elite
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Seydou Guede | ... |
Le facteur
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Karidyo Faoudou | ... |
Petit Jules
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Jean Rouch | ... |
Narrator
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Directed by
Jean Rouch |
Written by
Jean Rouch | ... | (writer) |
Produced by
Pierre Braunberger | ... | producer |
Music by
Joseph Yapi Degre |
Cinematography by
Jean Rouch |
Editing by
Catherine Dourgnon | ... | (as Catherine Dourgnan) |
Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte |
Production Management
Roger Fleytoux | ... | production manager |
Sound Department
André Lubin | ... | sound engineer |
Music Department
Amadou Demba | ... | song performer |
Myriam Touré | ... | song performer |
N'Dyaye Yéro | ... | song performer |
Additional Crew
Lam Ibrahim Dia | ... | consultant (as Ibrahim Dia) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Films du Jeudi, Les (1958) (France) (theatrical)
- Icarus Films (2017) (Canada)
- Icarus Films (2017) (United States)
- VideoFilmes (2006) (Brazil) (DVD)
- Yleisradio (YLE) (2010) (Finland) (tv)
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Plot Summary |
"I, a Negro" depicts young Nigerien immigrants who left their country to find work in the Ivory Coast, in the Treichville quarter of Abidjan, the capital. These immigrants live in squalor in Treichville, envious of the bordering quarters of The Plateau (the business and industrial district) and the old African quarter of Adjame. The film traces a week in these immigrants' lives, blurring the line between their characters' routines and their own. Every morning, Tarzan, Eddy Constantine and Edward G. Robinson seek work in Treichville in hopes of getting the 20 francs that a bowl of soup costs them. They perform menial jobs as dockers carrying sacks and handy labor shipping supplies to Europe. At night, they drink away their sorrows in bars while dreaming about their idealized lives as their "movie" alter-egos, alternatively as an FBI Agent, a womanizing bachelor, a successful boxer, and even able to stand up to the white colonialists that seduce away their women. These dream-like sequences are shot in a poetic mode. Each day is introduced by an interstitial voice of god omniscient narration from Jean Rouch, providing a universal thematic distance to the movie's events. The film is book-ended by a narration directed at both Petit Jules and the audience from Edward G. Robinson fondly looking back on his childhood in Niger and concluding that his life is worthy of his dreams. |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | Hollywood movie figures referenced in the film are Edward G Robinson, Dorothy Lamour, Tarzan and Jane, and Marlon Brando.The French moviestar Eddie Constantine is also referenced. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Two in the Wave (2010). See more » |