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Ceddo (1978)116 minDramaRating 65/100

Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ousmane Sembène’s ambitious precolonial epic explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, religious colonization, political expediency, and individual freedom as it chronicles the division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims.

Cast: Mamadou Dioumé, Tabata Ndiaye, Moustapha Yade, Ismaila Diagne, Matoura Dia, Omar Gueye, Nar Modou

Director: Ousmane Sembène