Mandabi
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Ousmane Sembene
Mamadou Gueye
Ynousse N'diaye
Issa Niang
Serigne N'diayes
Serigne Sow
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Ibrahim Dieng, an unemployed worker in Dakar, receives a money order from his nephew in Paris and goes to the post office to cash it, but he is told that he must have an identity card. He then goes to a police station where he is told that he cannot get an identity card without his birth certificate; at city hall he finds that he cannot get a birth certificate without a photograph. Dieng persuades another of his nephews, a water seller, to loan him the money until he can cash the money order, so the nephew gives him a check, but still without a card Dieng cannot cash it. After bribing the bank teller to cash the check, Dieng takes the balance of the money to a photographer's shop. When he returns the next day, he finds that the photographer has absconded with his money. He goes back to his nephew and asks him to cash the money order. The nephew takes the money order but returns empty-handed, explaining that his pocket has been picked. Dieng soon realizes that his nephew has cheated him, and he is now resigned to the loss of the money.
Director
Ousmane Sembene
Cast
Mamadou Gueye
Ynousse N'diaye
Issa Niang
Serigne N'diayes
Serigne Sow
Moustapha Touré
Farba Sarr
Moudoun Faye
Moussa Diouf
Christophe M'doulabia
Thérèse Bas
Mamadou Cisoko
Crew
Ibrahima Barro
Maya Bracher
Georges Caristan
Amate Dia
Cherif Dia
Joseph Diatta
Emile Ganem
Mawa Guaya
Gilou Kikoine
Bernard Lefebre
El Hadj M'bow
Jean Maumy
Henri Moline
Robert De Nesle
Anne Marie Rochas
Max Saldinger
Ababacar Samb
Ousmane Sembene
L. S. Senghor
Paul Soulignac
Awa Sylla
Issa Thiaw
Paulin S. Vieyra
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Dakar. Opened in Paris in November 1968 as Le mandat; running time: 90 min; in Dakar in December 1968; running time: 105 min. Sources conflict in crediting film editor. Christophe M'Doulabia is also known as Christophe Colomb. Also known as The Money Order.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States April 1970
Released in United States Spring April 1970
Shown at 1968 Venice Film Festival.
Shown at New York Film Festival September 29 & 30, 1969.
c Eastmancolor
subtitled English
Wolof and French-language versions
Released in United States April 1970
Released in United States Spring April 1970
