Film
Africa on the Seine
1955Directed by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Mamadou Sarr
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- Released
- Runtime
- 22m
About Africa on the Seine
- Documentary
Synopsis
This film is widely regarded as the first film made by an African south of the Sahara. Labelled an “ethnological documentary in reverse,” it shows 1950s Paris from the cinematic perspective of a group of African immigrants. (Mubi)
- Directors
- Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
- Mamadou Sarr
- Writer
- Mamadou Sarr
- Original title
- Afrique sur Seine
