F.V.V.A. - Femmes Voitures Villas Argent
Directed byMoustapha Alassane
Written byMoustapha Alassane
StarringZingare Abdoulaye
Sawadogo Bintou
Sotigui Kouyaté
Djingareye Maiga
Zalika Souley
Music byKuyaté Sotigui, Ensemble Super-Volta
Distributed byMarfilmes
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryNiger
LanguageFrench

Women Cars Villas Money (French: F.V.V.A. - Femmes Voitures Villas Argent) is a 1972 drama film directed by Moustapha Alassane.

Synopsis

Ali is a modest civil servant who enjoys a pleasant life in town. One day, upon being forced by his parents to marry a woman he doesn't want, Ali is dragged into a vortex composed by "Women (Femmes), Cars (Voitures), Villas, Money (Argent)" all of which, in Niger, stand for social success. Longing for an increasingly luxurious way of life, in order to support habits he himself created, Ali is forced to steal and is arrested. When everyone else abandons him, his first wife reveals her loyalty and awaits his release. The film depicts the frantic search for consumer goods by the low middle classes of the African cities and it was, according to Véronique Cayla, director of the Centre national de la Cinématographie (France), of remarking importance for the youngsters back in those years.[1]

Festivals

Awards

  • Prize OCAM at FESPACO - Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougo, Burkina Faso (1972)

See also

References

  1. "AfriBD - Une autre vision de l'actualité".


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