Marseille après la guerre
MovieTitle | Marseille après la guerre |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jun 8, 2023 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Billy Woodberry |
Production country | United States of America, Portugal |
Run time | 11 min. |
The film uses a collection of post-World War II black & white photographs to portray the dockworkers of Marseilles, many of whom were of African descent. Set in and around a 1947 strike protesting weapons shipments to the French in Indochina, the images evoke the life and work of Senegalese filmmaker, Ousmane Sembène, a former dockworker, and one of the founding figures of the New African Cinema of the 1960s.