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Yaaba

Title
Yaaba / a New Yorker Films release ; Arcadia Films, Les Films de l'Avenir, Thelma Film AG ; written and directed by Idrissa Ouédraogo.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, [1999], [©1999]

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Additional Authors
  • Ouédraogo, Idrissa.
  • Sanga, Fatimata.
  • Ouédraogo, Noufou.
  • Barry, Roukietou.
  • Arcadia Films.
  • Thelma Film AG.
  • Films de l'avenir.
  • New Yorker Films.
  • New Yorker Video (Firm)
Description
1 videocassette (90 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
Summary
A young girl and her cousin Bila happen upon an old witch outcast by their village many years before. Although forbidden by his parents to have any contact with the old lady, Bila is drawn to her mystique and the fear she brings to the village.
Subject
  • Feature films
  • Mossi (African people) > Drama
  • Mooré language films
  • Foreign films
  • Motion pictures, African
Note
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1989.
  • Letterboxed.
  • "NYV 59199"--Container.
Credits (note)
  • Director of photography, Matthias Kalin ; edited by Loredana Cristelli ; music, Francis Bebey.
Performer (note)
  • Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo, Amadé Touré, Sibidou Ouédraogo, Adamé Sidibé, Rasmane Ouédraogo, Kinda Moumouni.
System Details (note)
  • VHS.
Language (note)
  • In Mooré, with English subtitles.
ISBN
1567302092
OCLC
  • ocm43602217
  • SCSB-4010732
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries