DVD

Yeelen = Brightness / Filimu SISE bèna = Cissé Films present ; Solomani Sise, ka dja laben nè.

Cissé, Souleymane, (director,, screenwriter,, producer.). Keïta, Salif, 1949- (composer.). Portal, Michel, 1935- (composer.). Keita, Balla Moussa, (actor.). Kane, Issiaka, (actor.). Traoure, Soumba, (actor.). Sangare, Aoua, (actor.). Sanogo, Niamanto, (actor.). Sarr, Ismaila, (actor.). Sangare, Koke, (actor.). Cissé Films, (production company.). Kino International Corporation, (distributor.). Isiyaka Kane, Awa Sangare, Nyamanto Sanogo, Bala Musa Keyita, Sumba Tarawolo, Isimayila Sar, Koke Sangare, Yusufu Tenen Sise, Sidi Jalo. (Cast).

Summary:

A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified world order and captures the Bambara belief in time as circular, not linear, always returning to that initial "brightness" which created the world.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: New York : Kino on Video, [2002]
Copyright: ©2002

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally produced in Mali by Cissé Films 1987; released in association with Cinecom International Films.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Photography, Jean-Noel Ferragut, Jean-Michel Humeau ; editor, Dounamba Coulibaly ; music, Salif Keita, Michel Portal.
Participant or Performer Note:	Isiyaka Kane, Awa Sangare, Nyamanto Sanogo, Bala Musa Keyita, Sumba Tarawolo, Isimayila Sar, Koke Sangare, Yusufu Tenen Sise, Sidi Jalo.
System Details Note:	DVD, NTSC.
Language Note:	In Bambara with English subtitles; summaries in French.