Yeelen

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Full Title:: Yeelen / Filimu Sisé béna ; Solomnai sisé ka dja laben nè
Series Titles:: Trigon-Film dvd-edition ; 128
Trigon-Film DVD-edition ; 128.

Variant Titles:: German title on container: Licht
French title on container: Lumière
English title on container: Brightness
English title from subtitles: Light
Spanish title on container: Luz

Additional Author/Creators:: Cissé, Souleymane, director, screenwriter, and producer
Kane, Issiaka, actor
Sangare, Awa, actor
Sanògò, Nyamanto, actor
Keita, Balla Moussa, actor
Traoure, Soumba, actor
Keïta, Salif, 1949-, composer
Cissé Films
Trigon-Film

Genre:: Fantasy films
Film adaptations
Feature films
Fiction films
Subjects:: Bambara (African people)--Drama
Bambara (African people)--Rites and ceremonies--Drama
Mali--Drama

Summary:: A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified world order and captures the Bambara belief in time as circular, not linear, always returning to that initial "brightness" which created the world.
Language:: Bambara
Language Note:: In Bambara with optional English, French, German and Spanish subtitles; container in German and French.
Physical Type/Description:: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Technical Note:: DVD, PAL; widescreen (1.66:1 aspect ; 16:9).
General Note:: Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.
Participant/Performer Note:: Isiyaka Kane, Awa Sangare, Nyamanto Sanògò, Bala Musa Keyita, Sumba Tarawele.
Creation/Production Credits Note:: Music, Salifu Keyita.