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Letter from My Village

Letter from My Village

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 2, 1976

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama, Documentary

User Score

80%

Original Title

Kaddu Beykat

Production Companies

Safi

Director

Safi Faye

Description

Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Coumba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Coumba. He goes to Senegal's capital city, Dakar, to try to earn more money and is exploited there. He returns to the villagers and shares his experiences of the city with the other men. The story, which shows the daily lives of the villagers, is told in the form of a letter to a friend from a villager, voiced by Faye.