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Djibril Diop Mambety is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Assistant Director Senegalais born on 1 january 1945 at Gueule Tapée-Fass-Colobane (Senegal)

Djibril Diop Mambety

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Nationality Senegal
Birth 1 january 1945 at Gueule Tapée-Fass-Colobane (Senegal)
Death 23 july 1998 (at 53 years) at Paris (France)

Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only a small number of films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family near Dakar, Senegal's capital city, Mambéty was Wolof. He died in 1998 while being treated for lung cancer in a Paris hospital.

Biography

Fils d'un imam, Mambéty est né en 1945 à Colobane, un quartier du sud-ouest de Dakar. Il est le frère aîné du compositeur et musicien Wasis Diop et l'oncle de l'actrice Mati Diop.

Après des études de théâtre, il commence sa carrière comme acteur, au théâtre et dans plusieurs films sénégalais et italiens. Il crée le premier café-théâtre sénégalais à l'âge de dix-sept ans. Il fut durant un temps sociétaire du Théâtre National Sorano de Dakar. Le directeur du Centre culturel français de Dakar lui prête de l'équipement et un cameraman pour tourner ses premiers courts-métrages Contras' city et Badou boy.

Son premier long métrage sera Touki-Bouki (ou Le Voyage de la hyène, 1972). Dans son second long-métrage, Hyènes (1992), qui traite de la vengeance d'une vieille femme humiliée, d'après La Visite de la vieille dame de Friedrich Dürrenmatt, il propose un film où le cadrage est de grande qualité. Mambety souhaitait réunir ces deux films dans une trilogie sur le pouvoir et la folie.

En 1995, Djibril Diop Mambéty entreprend une trilogie qu'il appelle Histoires de petites gens. Il n'en tournera que les deux premiers volets, Le Franc (1995) - qui obtient le Prix du meilleur court métrage, lors du 5e Festival du cinéma africain de Milan - et son dernier film, La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (1998).

Il meurt d'un cancer du poumon le 23 juillet 1998 à Paris où il était soigné.

Un film documentaire, Mambéty For Ever, lui est consacré en 2008.

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Filmography of Djibril Diop Mambety (11 films)

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Actor

Hyenas
Hyenas (1992)
, 1h50
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Djibril Diop Mambety
Roles The Judge
Rating73% 3.689163.689163.689163.689163.68916
Hyènes (Hyenas) tells the story of Linguere Ramatou, an aging, wealthy woman who revisits her home village of Colobane. Linguere offers a disturbing proposition to the people of Colobane and lavishes luxuries upon them to persuade them. This embittered woman, "as rich as the World Bank", will bestow upon Colobane a fortune in exchange for the murder of Dramaan Drameh, a local shopkeeper who abandoned her after a love affair and her illegitimate pregnancy when she was 16.
10,000 Years of Cinema, 13minutes
Directed by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Djibril Diop Mambety, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Mansour Sora Wade

This documentary offers the reflections of filmmakers shot at FESPACO 1991. Djibril Diop Mambéty, David Achkar, Moussa Sene Absa, Mambaye Coulibaly, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Mansour Sora Wade... express their faith in the eternity of African cinema.
The Black Decameron, 1h38
Directed by Piero Vivarelli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Beryl Cunningham, Djibril Diop Mambety, Jacqueline Scott
Roles Simoa
Rating58% 2.9110052.9110052.9110052.9110052.911005
Each story starts with a griot introduction in the Wolof language by korafola Bana Cissokho.
City of Contrasts, 21minutes
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about cities
Actors Djibril Diop Mambety
Rating68% 3.4142553.4142553.4142553.4142553.414255
A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop Mambéty) and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz. As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse-drawn wagon, we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital, discovering contrast after contrast: A small African community waiting at the Church's door, Muslims praying on the sidewalk, the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings, the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market.

Director

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi"
Rating73% 3.6816453.6816453.6816453.6816453.681645
In Dakar, selling newspapers on the street is an occupation always occupied by boys. But one morning, Sili, a young beggar, challenges that exclusive rule. Her age is uncertain, between 10 and 13, and she walks the streets with the help of her crutches. She begs for help in the same spot the boys sell their papers, but today they attack her and she falls, rolling over and over. That’s it; she too will sell newspapers starting tomorrow.
Le Franc
Le Franc (1994)
, 45minutes
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Comedy
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi"
Rating66% 3.332993.332993.332993.332993.33299
Marigo the musician dreams with his instrument – a congoma – confiscated by his landlady because he never pays the rent. He gets hold of a lottery ticket and decides to put it in a safe place while he waits for the draw: he glues it to the back of his door. The night of the draw, fortune blinds Marigo, he is the proud owner of the winning ticket. He already sees himself as a millionaire, with a thousand congomas, an orchestra and a private plane… He even has visions of the charismatic Aminata Fall, symbol of capitalism in Africa. But there is small problem; the ticket is glued to the door…
Hyenas
Hyenas (1992)
, 1h50
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Djibril Diop Mambety
Rating73% 3.689163.689163.689163.689163.68916
Hyènes (Hyenas) tells the story of Linguere Ramatou, an aging, wealthy woman who revisits her home village of Colobane. Linguere offers a disturbing proposition to the people of Colobane and lavishes luxuries upon them to persuade them. This embittered woman, "as rich as the World Bank", will bestow upon Colobane a fortune in exchange for the murder of Dramaan Drameh, a local shopkeeper who abandoned her after a love affair and her illegitimate pregnancy when she was 16.
The Making of Yaaba, 34minutes
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Idrissa Ouédraogo
Rating67% 3.3979953.3979953.3979953.3979953.397995
Parlons Grand-mère est un court métrage documentaire sénégalais de 1989. Djibril Diop Mambéty a suivi et filmé le tournage de Yaaba, le deuxième long métrage d'Idrissa Ouédraogo. Un documentaire bourré d'anecdotes humoristiques sur les dangers du tournage de films au Burkina Faso.
Touki Bouki, 1h35
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi", Joséphine Baker
Rating69% 3.4946853.4946853.4946853.4946853.494685
Mory, a charismatic cowherd who drives a motorcycle mounted with a bull-horned skull, and Anta, a female student, meet in Dakar. Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, they dream of going to Paris and come up with different schemes to raise money for the trip. Mory eventually contrives to steal the money, and much clothing, from the household of a wealthy homosexual while the latter is taking a shower. Anta and Mory can finally buy tickets for the ship to France. But when Anta boards the ship in the Port of Dakar, Mory, poised on the gangplank behind her, is suddenly seized by an inability to leave his roots, and he runs away madly to find his bull-horned motorcycle, only to see that it has been ruined in a crash that nearly killed the rider who had taken it. The ship sails away with Anta but not Mory while the hauntingly melodious song "Love Is Fleeting, But Rejection Lasts a Lifetime" is sung and Mory sits next to his hat on the ground, staring disconsolately at his wrecked motorcycle. The film is written in French and Wolof, with English subtitles.
Badou Boy
Badou Boy (1970)
, 56minutes
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Rating68% 3.4133353.4133353.4133353.4133353.413335
A sarcastic look at Senegal's capital that followed the adventures of what the director described as a "somewhat immoral street urchin who is very much like myself". The contest pits the non-conformist individual against an absurdly caricatured policeman who pursues the protagonist through comedically improbable scenarios. Badou Boy celebrates an urban subculture while parodying the state.
City of Contrasts, 21minutes
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about cities
Actors Djibril Diop Mambety
Rating68% 3.4142553.4142553.4142553.4142553.414255
A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop Mambéty) and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz. As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse-drawn wagon, we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital, discovering contrast after contrast: A small African community waiting at the Church's door, Muslims praying on the sidewalk, the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings, the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market.

Scriptwriter

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi"
Roles Writer
Rating73% 3.6816453.6816453.6816453.6816453.681645
In Dakar, selling newspapers on the street is an occupation always occupied by boys. But one morning, Sili, a young beggar, challenges that exclusive rule. Her age is uncertain, between 10 and 13, and she walks the streets with the help of her crutches. She begs for help in the same spot the boys sell their papers, but today they attack her and she falls, rolling over and over. That’s it; she too will sell newspapers starting tomorrow.
Le Franc
Le Franc (1994)
, 45minutes
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Comedy
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi"
Roles Writer
Rating66% 3.332993.332993.332993.332993.33299
Marigo the musician dreams with his instrument – a congoma – confiscated by his landlady because he never pays the rent. He gets hold of a lottery ticket and decides to put it in a safe place while he waits for the draw: he glues it to the back of his door. The night of the draw, fortune blinds Marigo, he is the proud owner of the winning ticket. He already sees himself as a millionaire, with a thousand congomas, an orchestra and a private plane… He even has visions of the charismatic Aminata Fall, symbol of capitalism in Africa. But there is small problem; the ticket is glued to the door…
Hyenas
Hyenas (1992)
, 1h50
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Djibril Diop Mambety
Roles Writer
Rating73% 3.689163.689163.689163.689163.68916
Hyènes (Hyenas) tells the story of Linguere Ramatou, an aging, wealthy woman who revisits her home village of Colobane. Linguere offers a disturbing proposition to the people of Colobane and lavishes luxuries upon them to persuade them. This embittered woman, "as rich as the World Bank", will bestow upon Colobane a fortune in exchange for the murder of Dramaan Drameh, a local shopkeeper who abandoned her after a love affair and her illegitimate pregnancy when she was 16.