Samba Traoré
Directed by Idrissa Ouédraogo, Burkina Faso, 1993. 85 minutes

Source: New Yorker Films

A universal morality tale set in the austerely beautiful plains of the African Sahel region. Samba Traoré, on the run after a gas station hold-up, returns to his native village a rich man and becomes both benefactor and enigma to his neighbors. What starts as a crime story at times resembles an American western in its lean, landscape-shaped style, but at its core are timeless issues brought to life by a master of humanist cinema.

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