Xala
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| Xala | |
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| Directed by | Ousmane Sembène |
| Produced by | Paulin Vieyra |
| Written by | Ousmane Sembène |
| Starring | Thierno Leye, Seune Samb |
| Music by | Samba Diabara Samb |
| Distributed by | New Yorker Films (USA) |
| Release date(s) | July 1975 (Moscow Film Festival) October 1, 1975 (USA) |
| Running time | 123 min |
| Country |  Senegal |
| Language | French / Wolof |
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Xala is a 1975 Senegalese film directed by Ousmane Sembène. It is an adaptation of Sembène's own 1973 novel of the same name. The title means 'impotence' in the Wolof language
The film depicts El Hadji, a politician in an unnamed African nation, who is cursed with impotence upon the day of his marriage to his third wife. The film satirizes the corruption in African post-independence governments; El Hadji's impotence symbolizes the failure of such governments to break away from foreign influence and the greed of their own politicians. [1]
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