Sembene's second feature unlocked for the first time the complex daily world of modern Africa. A deceptively simple story of a man who receives a money order and, in his attempts to cash it, encounters an intimidating barrage of Third World bureaucracy, Mandabi is a deeply moving, witty, masterful portrait of an ancient civilization in the throes of change. A warm, subtle, heartbreaking comedy.

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