Directed by: Ousmane Sembène
Year: 1968
Time: 91 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 1065
Licensor
Studio Canal
Release Date: Tuesday, 16 February 2021
MSRP: $39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc
1.66:1
Wolof PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Region A
Introduction by film scholar Aboubakar Sanogo
Conversation from 2020 with author and screenwriter Boubacar Boris Diop and sociologist and feminist activist Marie Angélique Savané
Praise Song, a new program about director Ousmane Sembène featuring outtakes from the 2015 documentary Sembène! of interviews with author and activist Angela Davis, musician Youssou N’Dour, filmmaker and scholar Manthia Diawara, and many others
Tauw, a 1970 short film by Sembène
An essay by critic and scholar Tiana Reid and excerpts from a 1969 interview with Ousmane Sembène
A new edition of Sembène’s 1966 novella The Money Order, on which the film is based