Marseille après la guerre

Marseille après la guerre

NR 2023 · 11 min · Documentary

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.

Directed by Billy Woodberry · Written by Billy Woodberry

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