Djibril Diop Mambéty
23 January 1945 – 23 July 1998
Djibril Diop Mambéty (1945–1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor and composer whose feature Touki Bouki (1973) is regarded as a landmark of African cinema. After a long gap he returned with Hyènes (1992), an adaptation of Dürrenmatt's The Visit, and began a trilogy of short films about ordinary people that was left unfinished at his death in Paris.
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Life events
Born in the Colobane district of Dakar, the son of a Muslim cleric.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTrained and performed as a stage actor at Senegal's national theatre before turning to film.
His first film, a short documentary portrait of Dakar's contrasting architecture and society.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA short feature following a young street hustler in Dakar; it won an award at the Carthage Film Festival.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTouki Bouki premiered in 1973 and received the International Critics' Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Award at the Moscow International Film Festival.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHyènes, an adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play The Visit, competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLe Franc was the first part of a planned trilogy of short films about the lives of ordinary people.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe second film of the trilogy, about a girl selling newspapers in Dakar, was completed and released posthumously in 1999.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied of lung cancer in a Paris hospital at the age of 53.
Source: en.wikipedia.org