Souleymane cisse filmsenzalimiti
Souleymane cisse filmsenzalimiti
Brightness!
Souleymane Cissé (film director)
Malian film director (born 1940)
Souleymane Cissé (born April 21, 1940) is a Malianfilm director, regarded as one of the first generation of African filmmakers.[1] He has been called "Africa's greatest living filmmaker"[2] while his film Yeelen has been called "conceivably the greatest African film ever made."[3]
Biography
Born in Bamako and raised in a Muslim family, Souleymane Cissé was a passionate cinephile from childhood.
He attended secondary school in Dakar and returned to Mali in 1960 after national independence.[4]
His film career began as an assistant projectionist for a documentary on the arrest of Patrice Lumumba.
This triggered his desire to create films of his own, and he obtained a scholarship at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography,[5] the Moscow school of Cinema and Television.
In 1970 he returned to Mali, and joined the Ministry of Information as a cameraman, wher