Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
Direction
Sembène's debut — every frame a political act.
Acting
Diop's silent suffering speaks volumes.
Cinematography
Black and white that cages and liberates.
Director
Ousmane Sembène
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sembène shot this for $30,000 after the French refused to fund it — the first feature by a Black African director, and it won at Cannes 1967.
The apartment's narrow corridors were shot in a real Antibes flat so cramped the crew could barely move — Diouana's physical entrapment was literal.
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