Direction: Jean Rouch

Direction Jean Rouch

Plot The arrival of Nadine, a new student, in the Abidjan Lyceum is the starting point for a discussion about interratial relationships.

Direction Jean Rouch

Plot The adventures of three young men who leave their homeland Savannah, Niger, and go looking for fortune in Ghana.

Direction Jean Rouch

Plot Director Jean Rouch follows bow hunters in West Africa as they track down lions in this informative documentary. The hunters prepare arrows, poison, and the traps that will catch the...

Direction Edgar Morin · Jean Rouch

Cast Edgar Morin · Jean Rouch

Plot A market researcher's question put to Parisians, "Tell us, are you happy?", provokes this multi-layered, manipulated cinema-verité snapshot of France in the 60s.

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Amadou Demba · Karidyo Faoudou · Oumarou Ganda · Seydou Guede

Plot Treichville is a poor suburb of Abidjah, the capital of Ivory Coast and the destination of the two protagonists in this docudrama by Jean Rouch. The two men in question...

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Moustapha Alassane · Ariane Bruneton · Michel Delahaye · Safi Faye

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Nadine Ballot · Gilles Quéant · Barbet Schroeder

Plot In a busy, noisy neighborhood, a frustrated young wife in a failing marriage is offered her freedom by her indifferent husband, but has second thoughts after meeting an intriguing stranger.

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Damouré Zika · Lam Ibrahim Dia · Tallou Mouzourane · Claudine

Direction Jean Rouch

Plot Simple premise of this film is to follow the effects of colonialism on indigenous Africans via specific rituals developed as a reaction to the colonial system.

Direction Jean Rouch

Direction Jacques Doillon · Alain Resnais · Jean Rouch

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Miou-Miou · Gérard Jugnot · Coluche

Plot "Stop everything and reflect!". Built starting from this slogan, three accounts of political fiction imagined and filmed in the United States, in France and Africa. A merry utopia on the...

Direction Jean Rouch

Plot Daily life of the Fanti fishermen of Ghana, and rituals for the opening of the fishing season at Shama, Ghana.

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Michel Aracheguesne · Nadine Ballot · Marie France De Chabaneix · Véronique Duval

Direction Pierre Ponty · Jean Rouch · Jean Sauvy

Plot Hippopotamus hunting with a harpoon by the Sorko of Niger. In the village of Firgoun, in sheds shaped like amphorae, the fishermen build a large hunting canoe with strips of...

Direction Jean Rouch

Plot In 1971 Rouch made Les Tambours d’avant: Tourou et Bitti, a successful experiment with the long-take, and the model film of the ciné-trance, in which the camera-person becomes involved, or...

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Jean Monod · Hélène Puiseux · Cookie Chiapalone · Fifi Raliatou

Direction Jean Rouch

Plot Not much film stock, an inspired camera, a meditation on time, period songs: using contemporary images, shot at a time when the broken city was starting to heal its wounds,...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira · Jean Rouch

Cast Manoel de Oliveira · Jean Rouch

Plot A poem by Manoel de Oliveira filmed by Jean Rouch & friends. On a trip to Portugal, Jean Rouch chats with Manoel de Oliveira on the terrace of his house...

Direction Jean Rouch · Jacques d'Arthuys

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Damouré Zika · Lam Ibrahim Dia · Tallou Mouzourane · Wineke Onstwedder