DIOL KADD is the result of three years spent filming in a small Senegalese village in the sub-Saharan Savannah. The troupe set out to observe the villagers' daily life and their loyalty to traditions that create a communitarian lifestyle. In addition, it filmed a production of a play about wealth and poverty by actor/director Mandiaye N'Diaye, the story of a farmer who has tired of his occupation and is fed up with being poor. A wise man advises him to seek out a blind man who will lead him to riches. This blind man turns out to be the lord of the rains, who arrives in the usual season to make the fields fertile and mankind prosperous. On the last trip to the village (2006), the troupe built a screen in the middle of the savannah to show their film, and villagers watched as the lord of the rains comes to Diol Kadd to distribute riches to honest villagers, but is attacked by a group of youths who steal everything he has. The lord of the rains turns in his heels and flees, vowing to never have anything to do with mankind again. So ends the era of beneficent gods; the only god worshipped now is the money god.

Directed by Gianni Celati

CAST
Mandiaye N'Diaye, Moussa Kâ, Aboulaye Diop, Mam'Asta Kandji, Maty N'Diaye e tutti gli abitanti del villaggio di Diol Kadd

Direction: Gianni Celati
Screenplay: Gianni Celati, in collaborazione con Mandyaie N'Daye
Cinematography: Lamberto Borsetti, Paolo Muran
Editing: Lamberto Borsetti
Sound: Lamberto Borsetti

Production: Pierrot e la rosa srl
Co-production: Paofilm
Italian Distribution: Vitagraph
International Distribution: Vitagraph


Original title: Diol Kadd. Vita, diari e riprese in un villaggio del Senegal.
Country: Italy
Year: 2010
Length: 90
Original Language: Italian

Source:
www.romacinemafest.it/ecm/web/fcr/en/home/-/EOC/Diol-Kadd-Life-Diaries-and-Takes-on-a-Village-in-Senegal.0000.FILMEN4597

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Italia, 2010 - 90'
Regia: Gianni Celati


CAST
Mandiaye N'Diaye, Moussa Kâ, Aboulaye Diop, Mam'Asta Kandji, Maty N'Diaye e tutti gli abitanti del villaggio di Diol Kadd