Yango was playing jacks that day, like every other day. He will regret all his life having sold the fetish that makes the rain fall to a kind stranger. But the saving water will come from the bowels of the earth.
Fiction short films
L’ENFANT ET LA PLUIE (The child and the rain)
Mario MARRET
1964
Version : French
Duration : 18'
Format : 35 mm. - 16 mm. - DVCPro - Mpeg4
Black & white
Distribution : TV5
Scriptwriter : Mario MARRET
Producer : ARMOR Films - Fred ORAIN
Country France
Duration : 18'
Format : 35 mm. - 16 mm. - DVCPro - Mpeg4
Black & white
Distribution : TV5
Scriptwriter : Mario MARRET
Producer : ARMOR Films - Fred ORAIN
Country France
With
Texte dit par Toto BISSAINTHE
Music Thèmes originaux africains
Picture Mario MARRET
Stage set Bandiagara cliff in Dogon Country and Mopti, a town on the banks of the Niger
With the participation of ORTF
Music Thèmes originaux africains
Picture Mario MARRET
Stage set Bandiagara cliff in Dogon Country and Mopti, a town on the banks of the Niger
With the participation of ORTF
Archive footage
- African Dogon village,
- Dogon farmers,
- Women pounding millet and preparing the meal,
- Ceremony and festival among the Dogon, ritual dances,
- Rain ritual,
- Women fetching water from the cliff,
- Children playing in the village,
- Dogon child riding a donkey,
- African market,
- Niger River : fisherman casting his net, women washing, large pirogue loaded with goods.
- Dogon farmers,
- Women pounding millet and preparing the meal,
- Ceremony and festival among the Dogon, ritual dances,
- Rain ritual,
- Women fetching water from the cliff,
- Children playing in the village,
- Dogon child riding a donkey,
- African market,
- Niger River : fisherman casting his net, women washing, large pirogue loaded with goods.