Le Franc (1994)
46m
Running Time
August 1, 1994Release Date
Plot.
A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. —but the ticket wins.
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Cast & Crew.
Dieye Ma
Marigo
Dieye Ma Dieye
Marigo
Aminata Fall
Landlady
Demba Bâ
Dwarf
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Director
Alioune Mbow
Sound
Silvia Voser
Producer
Issa Cissokho
Composer
Moussa N'Diaye
Composer
Stéphan Oriach
Cinematographer
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Le Franc is a 1994 Senegalese short comedy film, directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty.
Le Franc is about Marigo, a penniless musician living in a shanty town, relentlessly harassed by his formidable landlady.
This film uses the French government's 50% devaluation of the West African CFA franc in 1994, and the resulting hardships as the basis for a whimsical commentary on using the lottery for survival.
Le Franc was originally intended as the first film of a trilogy under the title, Tales of Ordinary People. However, Mambety’s untimely death in 1998 prevented the completion of the third film.