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Samba Traoré

Samba Traoré

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 3, 1993

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Drama

User Score

56%

Original Title

Samba Traoré

Production Companies

Waka Films, Films A2, Films de L'Avenir, Les Films de l'Avenir, Les Films de la Plaine

Director

Idrissa Ouedraogo

Description

Samba (Bakary Sangare) has returned unannounced to his home village, bringing with him a suitcase full of money. Despite his protests that this is money that he earned in the city, the villagers have their doubts. In fact, he held up a gas station and unintentionally killed its attendant, and is in hiding here. Meanwhile, he has married a woman (Mariam Kaba) with a child who left her husband and built a house for her. He is building a bar with his remaining money, but he encounters a situation which makes him believe that he will be exposed to the police, and runs away, leaving a pregnant, very ill wife behind, much to the disgust of the villagers and Samba's own family.