LIFE ON EARTH - DVD-2000-FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Details

• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: In the last days of 1999, after a few shots of a French supermarket, abundant in food and color, we hear Dramane compose a letter home to his father in Mali whom he then visits in the village of Sokolo. He meets the lovely Nana, and there are possibilities. People place long-distance calls from the post office. "Reaching people," says the postmaster, "is a matter of luck." Contrasts between Paris and Sokolo - between Mali and France and between Africa and Europe - are underscored by voice-over poems and comments by Aimé Césaire. A man dictates a letter to a brother in France: what is the nature of their hardships? People look for their place on this earth.
• Cast: Abderrahmane Sissako, Nana Baby, Mohamed Sissako
• Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
• Runtime: 61 min
• Media Format: movie