Djibril Diop Mambéty

Born: 1945-01-01

Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family near Dakar, Senegal's capital city, Mambéty was Wolof. He died in 1998 while being treated for lung cancer in a Paris hospital.


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Hyenas

as The Judge
Released: 1992-09-18

A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her...

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City of Contrasts

as uncredited
Released: 1969-01-01

A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation...

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10,000 Years of Cinema

as uncredited
Released: 1991-01-01

This documentary offers the reflections of filmmakers shot at FESPACO 1991. Djibril Diop...

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The Death Knell

as Narrator
Released: 1964-01-01

At the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare), in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe),...

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Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane

as uncredited
Released: 1991-12-31

In April and May 1991, Djibril Diop Mambéty shot his second—and final—feature, Hyenas, a free,...

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Mambéty

as Self
Released: 2002-03-04

Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty, one of the greatest figures in all of African film,...

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