The Price of Forgiveness
Synopsis
For some time now a strange cloud of mist has been hanging over a village of fishermen, stopping the men from going to sea. Fear and superstition reign.
Two young men, Yatma and Mbanick, childhood friends, love the same woman, Maxoye. Mbanik is the son of a marabou and is the only who dares defy the spirits, thereby making the fog disappear.
The village celebrates its hero and springs to life again with the sun’s return. The fishermen head out for sea, the marketplace is decked out in bright colors. Maxoye and Mbanik no longer need hide their love affair. Yatma, however, can’t bear Mbanik’s new status. One night, in a fit of jealousy, he kills his friend and rival and dumps his corpse into the ocean. Peer, Yatma’s father, the village “Lion”, enforces a law of silence on the village with regards to his son’s crime, although everyone knows he’s guilty. The Lion then gets Maxoye to marry Yatma. She accepts, planning revenge for Mbanik’s death: Yatma will have to raise the future offspring...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (8)
Production and distribution (3)
- Foreign production company : Kaany Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : Les Films du Safran
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Raphaël Vion
- Screenwriters : Mansour Sora Wade, Nar Sene
- Director of Photography : Pierre-Olivier Larrieu
- Music Composers : Wasis Diop, Loy Ehrlich
- Editors : Christian Billette, Sylvie Adnin
- Sound recordists : Pierre Catois, Arnaud Julien
- Costume designers : Mamefa Gueye Ba, Mame Fagueye Bâ
- Authors of original work : Mbissane Ngom, Dakar Nea
- Press Attachés (film) : Thierry Lenouvel, Claire Viroulaud
- Production Designer : Moustapha Ndiaye
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : Wolof
- Coproducer countries : France, Senegal
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Senegal)
