Ousmane Sembene - Ceddo (1977)

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Ceddo (1977)
102 min | XviD 640x384 | 1656 kb/s | 95 kb/s VBR mono | 25 fps | 1.4 GB 3% recovery record
Wolof | Subtitles: Hard-coded French, plus English and Spanish .srt | Genre: Epic/Drama
In one small village in Senegal, three cultures are fighting for dominance: one worshiping the traditional village fetishes, one the new Islamic faith, and the third represented by two white Europeans. Admittedly, the latter are not so interested in converting souls as they are in trading guns for slaves. As the power shifts back and forth, more than one group decides it has to spend a few people on guns. The real catalyst of the events of the film occurs when three anti-Islamic villagers kidnap the daughter of the Islamic king. This starts a small-scale civil war that has a local band of Muslims (allies of the Islamic king against the anti- Islamic villagers) attempting to oust the king and seize control for themselves.

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Banned in Senegal on an absurd technicality, Ceddo, Sembene’s most ambitious film, uses the story of a beautiful princess’s kidnapping to examine the confrontation between opposing cultural forces: Muslim expansion, Christianity, and the slave trade. The “Ceddo”—or feudal class of common people—cling desperately to their customs and their fetishistic religion amidst the impending changes. Nominally set in the nineteenth century, Ceddo ranges far and wide to include philosophy, fantasy, militant politics, and a couple of electrifying leaps across the centuries to evoke the whole of the African experience. Ceddo is in many ways Sembene’s most daring film stylistically and his most provocative in terms of the issues that it raises, issues involving the slave trade, religious colonization (both Christian and--especially--Islam), and modes of resistance.

Although the film is set in the past, apparently at the time of both an ongoing Islamic and an early European penetration of traditional African society, its director, Sembène Ousmane, insists: “I can't give a date. These events occurred in the 18th and 19th century and are still occurring” (1). Indeed, one crucial period for the expansion and consolidation of Islam amongst Wolof-speakers did not occur till after 1871 and the termination of the slave-trade. Thus, just as the village in the film is an exemplary microcosm of African (or at least West African) society in the throes of a crucial transition brought about by external pressures, and internal greed, ambition and dissension, so the time-span of the film (approximately a day and a half) offers an exemplary survey of two or more centuries of West African history.

quot;Ceddo is not a tribe, it is a state of mind.quot; -- Ousmane Sembène

DVD rip by pa6sur (KG) English subtitles, courtesy of jack (KG)

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En una pequeña aldea de Senegal, tres culturas pelean para dominar; una adora a los fetiches tradicionales de la aldea, otra la nueva religión islámica, y la tercera es representada por dos europeos blancos. El interés fundamental de estos últimos no es convertir almas sino canjear armas por esclavos. A medida que el poder va cambiando de manos, más de un grupp decide que debe vender esclavos para conseguir armas. El drama se desata cuando tres aldeanos anti-islámicos secuestran a la hija del rey islámico.
Ceddo es una mezcla de acontecimientos que ocurrieron realmente en Senegal entre los siglos XVII y XIV. En palabras del realizador, “ser un ceddo supone un estado de ánimo. Al principio de la expansión islámica, se llamaba ceddo a la gente que se resistía a la nueva religión… Fueron los últimos detentadores de la espiritualidad africana antes de que fuera impregnada por el islam o el cristianismo”. Esta película, que trata tanto del imperialismo occidental como del musulmán, fue prohibida en Senegal durante ocho años.

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Le film se situe au 17ème siècle au moment où l'islam et le christianisme pénètrent l'Afrique de l'Ouest. Pour les deux religions, tous les moyens sont bons pour remplir la mosquée ou l'église : armes à feu, alcool et pacotille de toute sorte. L'imam,après avoir converti la famille royale et les grands dignitaires, se heurte au refus des « Ceddos », le peuple. Pour eux, adhérer à une religion étrangère, c'est renoncer au spiritualisme africain. Pour arriver à ses fins, l'imam usurpe le trône. Il procède à des conversions forcées et donne à chacun un nouveau nom. Il réduit les récalcitrants à l'esclavage et les échange contre des fusils. La princesse Dior Yacine est enlevée par un Ceddo. Tout au long du film, elle incarne la résistance. Quand son gardien est tué, elle revient seule munie d'un fusil et, s'apercevant de l'état de soumission de son peuple, tue le marabout-roi. Un film de réflexion rassemblant des faits véridiques qui s'échelonnent sur plusieurs siècles.

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