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Tilai (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: The Law
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Arabic ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
81 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Featurette
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
Burkina Faso ( Africa, Middle East )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Idrissa Ouedraogo

Written By:
Idrissa Ouedraogo

Actors:
Rasmane Ouedraogo ..... Saga
Ina Cissé ..... Nogma
Roukietou Barry ..... Kuilga
Assane Ouedraogo ..... Kougri
Sibidou Sidibe ..... Poko
Moumouni Ouedraogo ..... Tenga
Mariam Barry ..... Bore
Seydou Ouédraogo ..... Nomenaba
Mariam Ouedraogo ..... Koudpoko
Daouda Porgo ..... Porgo
Kogre Warma ..... Maiga
Mamadou Ganame ..... Ganame
Noufou Ouédraogo ..... The child
Amade Ganame ..... Villager

Synopsis:

The unbending nature of village law wreaks havoc upon an all-too human family in this unusual film from the tiny nation of Burkina Faso. In the story, a young man has fallen in love with and become affianced to a young woman, which is not too strange. But then his father swiftly exercises his customary parental prerogatives, and marries the girl instead. Now the boy's fiancee has officially become his mother, and his father's second wife. The distraught lovers run away together, but are actively sought by the otherwise easygoing village authorities for having (technically) committed the crime of incest. When the man's other son pretends to have carried out the father's decree that the boy be killed for having disgraced the family name, he, too, suffers. Finally, the father suffers from his bewilderment at how his being so clearly in the right can cause such disasters.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 April, 2007.

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