Bronx-Barbes ( Bronx - Barbes )

Bronx-Barbes (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Bronx-Barbès
Alternate Title: Bronx - Barbes
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
107 min + 60 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Eliane de Latour

Written By:
Emmanuel Bourdieu
Eliane de Latour

Actors:
Antony Koulehi Diate ..... Toussaint
Loss Sylla Ousseni ..... Nixon
Edwige Dogo ..... Mariam
Shang Lee Souleyman Kere ..... Tyson
David Cyril Guen ..... Simpliste
Thomas Guei ..... Al Capone
Daoda Siabé ..... Chirac
Riki Aboubacar Kouyaté ..... Roccoco
Lassima Touré ..... Matador
San Kess Soukouri ..... Ramsès le Pharaon
Yacouba Traoré ..... Tupac Amaru
Tahirou Coulibaly ..... Las Vegas
Pascal Gnako Boukosson ..... Pacific
Marcellin Gbazai ..... De Paris
Kramoko Bamba ..... L'Américain

Synopsis:

A drama set in the brutal world of Africa's ghettos, Bronx-Barbes opens with an introduction to Toussaint (Antony Koulehi Diate) and Nixon (Loss Sylla Ousseni), two teenaged friends who are out of work and commit petty thievery in order to eat. After accidentally murdering a ganglord one night, the two are taken under the wing of a group of thugs who populate the Bronx, a tough neighborhood run by a Mafia-like organization. Toussaint is able to scale the ranks of the neighborhood hierarchy, while Nixon ends up in jail for burglary, and is only released after Toussaint raises the money to free him. Eventually, the friends move on to Barbes, an even rougher neighborhood where they find that it takes more than just friendship to survive.

Toussaint (Diate) and Nixon (Ousseni) are teenage friends in the Ivory Coast who can't find jobs. After accidentally killing someone in defense of Nixon, Toussaint and Nixon join Bronx, the local gang that rules the ghetto, for protection. Toussaint quickly establishes himself as a worthy warrior in robberies arranged by his mentor (oldsta), Tyson (Shang Lee Souleyman Kere) and gains enough status to be seen as an oldsta, rather than yougsta among the kids that came in at the time he did. He uses this position to cut short a gang rape of Mariam (Dogo), a slender girl that he fancies, and then he takes her on as his woman. Meanwhile, Nixon and some other impatient youngstas, decide to pull a job on their own, with a fake gun. When they mess up, one youngsta is beaten to death by the neighbors and Nixon is tracked down by the police and jailed.

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