Country: Canada, France, Senegal
Year: 2001
Duration: 86'
In the courtyard of the women's prison in Gorée, the prisoners and guards are playing a famous Senegalese song on improvised percussion instruments. Karmen invites the female director of the prison to dance with her. In the deep of the night, the director goes to Karmen's cell. The next morning Karmen is released from prison. One month later, in Dakar, Karmen seduces the police lieutenant, Lamine Diop, and is arrested. She soon manages to escape and hides with Lamine at his mother's house.
Biography
film director
Joseph Gaye Ramaka
Joseph Gaï Ramaka was born in 1952 in Saint Louis, Senegal. He studied visual anthropology and cinema in Paris and in 1990, he founded Les Ateliers de l'Arche, a company that is involved in cinematographic production and distribution in Senegal. In 1999 he opened a new, modern cinema house and has begun construction on the most important movie studio in Western Africa.
FILMOGRAFIA
Baaw-naan I/Rites de pluie (cm, 1985), La Musique lyrique peul (doc., 1986), Portrait d'une mannequin (doc., 1986), Nitt… N'doxx (1989), Baby Sister (doc., 1997), Ainsi soit-il (mm, 1997), Karmen (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Joseph Gaï Ramaka.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Joseph Gaï Ramaka, dal racconto di Prosper Mérimée.
Director of photography: Bertrand Chatry.
Art director: Nikos Meletopoulos.
Costume designer: Mame Fagueye Ba.
Editor: Helene Girard.
Sound: Daniel Masse, Jean-Pierre Bissonnette.
Music: David Murray.
Cast and characters: Djeinaba Diop (Karmen), Magaye Niang (Lamine Diop), Stéphanie Biddle (Warden), Thierno Ndiaye Dos (Samba), Djénaba Nian (Ma Penda), El Hadji Ndiaye (Massigi).
Production company: Richard Sadler per Les Productions Mataranka, Stock Films International, 4446 St-Laurent, Suite 804, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1Z5 Canada, tel. +1-514-2810134, fax +1-514-9852563, e-mail info@stockintl.ca.
Co-production: Euripide Productions/Zagarianka/ Les Ateliers de l'Arche/Arte France Cinema/ Canal+ Horizons.
Foreign sales agent: UGC International, 2, rue des Quatre-Fils, 75003 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-40298900, fax +33-1-40298910, e-mail contact@ugc.fr.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Joseph Gaï Ramaka, dal racconto di Prosper Mérimée.
Director of photography: Bertrand Chatry.
Art director: Nikos Meletopoulos.
Costume designer: Mame Fagueye Ba.
Editor: Helene Girard.
Sound: Daniel Masse, Jean-Pierre Bissonnette.
Music: David Murray.
Cast and characters: Djeinaba Diop (Karmen), Magaye Niang (Lamine Diop), Stéphanie Biddle (Warden), Thierno Ndiaye Dos (Samba), Djénaba Nian (Ma Penda), El Hadji Ndiaye (Massigi).
Production company: Richard Sadler per Les Productions Mataranka, Stock Films International, 4446 St-Laurent, Suite 804, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1Z5 Canada, tel. +1-514-2810134, fax +1-514-9852563, e-mail info@stockintl.ca.
Co-production: Euripide Productions/Zagarianka/ Les Ateliers de l'Arche/Arte France Cinema/ Canal+ Horizons.
Foreign sales agent: UGC International, 2, rue des Quatre-Fils, 75003 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-40298900, fax +33-1-40298910, e-mail contact@ugc.fr.