Keïta! l'Héritage du griot (1995)
- Original title
- Keïta! L'héritage du griot
- Directed by
- Dani Kouyaté
- Genre
- fantasy film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young boy in modern Burkina Faso learns the ancient epic of Sundiata from a visiting griot. The film weaves together the oral tale and the boy's everyday life.
mythiceducationalcontemplativeepisodicoralslow-pacedlyricalearthy
What happens
Keïta! l'Héritage du griot (English title: Keita! Voice of the Griot) is a 1995 Burkinabé film directed by Dani Kouyaté and starring Sotigui Kouyaté. It is an adaptation of the first third of the 13th-century Epic of Sundiata, interspersed with scenes of a griot telling the story to a young child. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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