Lucy's Revenge

Lucy's Revenge

1998•1h 30m

Comedy

After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he's also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.

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Production

Direction de la Cinematographie Nationale

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Tom Novembre

Tom Novembre

Georges, the bad white spirit

Pierre-Loup Rajot

Pierre-Loup Rajot

Father Edouard

Ann-Gisel Glass

Ann-Gisel Glass

Sister Stella

Aïssa Maïga

Aïssa Maïga

Lucy

Adrienne Koutouan

Albertine

Désiré Koumsongo

Adama

Bala Moussa

Cissé

Mikhaïl Sleptsov

The polish waiter

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