Tauw

Tauw is an unemployed twenty-year-old man in modern Senegal. Son of an oppressive father, he spends his days loafing, daydreaming and hanging out with his friends. Yet he is not useless, as his father accuses him. When his pregnant girlfriend is rejected by her family, he assumes the responsibility, leaves his own oppressive parents behind and leads her to their new home.
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Script: Ousmane Sembene
Cinematography: Georges Caristan
Editing: Mawa Gaye
Sound: El Hadji M’Bow
Music: Diabare Samb
Actors: Amadou Dieng, Mamadou M’Bow, Fatim Diagne, Coumba Mane, Yoro Cisse,Mamadou Diagne, Christophe N’Doulabia
Production: Broadcasting Film Commission
Producers: Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Herbert F. Lowe
Co-production: National Council of the Church of Christ
Format: 16mm Color
Production Country: Senegal
Production Year: 1970
Duration: 24

Ousmane Sembene

He was born in 1923 and died in 2007. He is a Senegalese writer, chronicler and film director, best-known for his historical- political works with strong social comment. In the 1960s he developed an interest in the cinema and went to the Gorki Institute in Moscow to study film production. His Black Girl was the first film ever produced by an African filmmaker and won the Jean Vigo Award at the Cannes IFF 1966. He often turned his short stories and novels into films. During his career as a director, he received several international awards and his films were immensely popular in Africa.

Filmography

1963 Borom Sarret/The Cart Driver (short)
1963 L’Empire Songhai/The Songhai Empire (short doc.)
1964 Niaye (short)
1966 La Noire de.../Black Girl
1968 Mandabi/The Money Order
1969 (Traumatisme de la femme face a la) polygamie/
Women and the Trauma of Polygamy (doc.)
1969 Probleme de l’emploi a.k.a. Les Derives du chomage/
Unemployment Problems (doc)
1970 Tauw (short)
1971 Emitai/God of Thunder
1972 Jeux Olympiques de Munich/The Munich Olympic Games (doc.)
1974 Xala/The Curse
1976 Ceddo
1988 Camp de Thiaroye/Camp Thiaroye
1992 Guelwaar
1999 L’heroisme au quotidian/Daily Heroism (short)
2000 Faat Kine
2004 Moolaade