The Wrestlers (1982)
- Original title
- M'Pongo
- Directed by
- Jean-Michel Tchissoukou
- Genre
- sport film
- Country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This film is both a documentary and a fictional story about a traditional Congolese wrestling festival. The competition between two villages stands in for the larger clash between African and European ways of life in the 1980s.
observationalgroundedtraditionalculturalatmosphericearthymatter-of-fact
What happens
M'Pongo est un film congolais réalisé par Jean-Michel Tchissoukou, sorti en 1982. Le M'Pongo est une lutte traditionnelle congolaise qui a encore, de nos jours, une très grande popularité. En 1982, le réalisateur Jean-Michel Tchissoukou, le père du cinéma congolais, met en parallèle les conflits créés autour d'un festival de M'Pongo entre deux villages au conflit de civilisations africaines et européennes explosif à l'époque. Le film est davantage un documentaire sur ce sport et l'éclat des coutumes africaines de l'époque qu'une fiction. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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