Information about the film
Genres:
Documentary, Short-length
Director: Costades Diagne (Guinea), Yuriy Genika and Grigoriy Chukhray’s s workshop
Operator: Mikhail Vartanov
Screenwriter: Costades Diagne (Guinea), Yuriy Genika and Grigoriy Chukhray’s s workshop
Producer company : VGIK
Year: 1965
Country: USSR
Duration: 20 min.
Description
Synopsis:
The iconic film “People of the Dance” by Guinean Costades Diagne continues the anti-colonial rhetoric of “Les statues meurent aussi” by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker. A student from Africa comes to an exhibition of African masks at the Moscow Museum of Oriental Art. A wise mask starts talking to him.
