City of Contrasts (movie)
Contras' City- User score: 5.3
- Production country: Senegal
- Producer: Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Production companies: Studio Kankourama
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/1/1969
- Run time: 22 min.
Movie description
A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop Mambéty) and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz. As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse drawn wagon, we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital, discovering contrast after contrast: A small African community waiting at the Church's door, Muslims praying on the sidewalk, the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings, the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market.
