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Med Hondo was a Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and voice actor. He emigrated to France in 1959 and began to work in film during the 1960s. He received critical acclaim for his 1967 directorial début Soleil O.
Total trailers found: 32
08 February 2006
Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.
04 January 1973
An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.
01 June 1971
African migrants in Paris talk about everyday life and racism on the labour and housing markets. The chanson from which the film takes its title sings of misery on people’s own doorstep.
01 July 1986
On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon.
12 April 2006
Asterix and Obelix have been given a tough mission: Transform the chief's lazy nephew Justforkix into a warrior.
09 September 1990
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
02 January 1966
A young fisherman dreams of motorizing his boat to make his work easier. His dream becomes reality, thanks to his courage and his determination but causes conflict between traditional values and the modern notion of progress.
05 October 1969
During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love with an aristocrat.
13 December 2000
Corruption threatens to move into a heretofore idyllic village in this comedy-drama. Hector St. Rose is the mayor of a seaside community in the Antilles Islands, a French-controlled territory in the West Indies.
30 April 1997
A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it.
07 October 2009
Festive children's animation following the adventures of a young elf who graduates to Santa's workshop.
12 January 1968
Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou).
02 January 1975
“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.
22 March 1966
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm.
01 January 2004
In the aftermath of the Algerian War, a young Algerian woman reaches a strange reconciliation with the Senegalese officer who raped and impregnated her.
02 January 1974
A lucid, sincere and intricate political film, it demonstrates how French neocolonialism exploits migrant labor and exerts a cultural imperialism over their minds.
31 December 1964
A French TV movie directed by Jean-Christophe Averty , broadcast on December 24, 1964 . The Old Testament set in Louisiana with an all black cast.
08 February 1978
Four young African workers attempt to break the spell of their poverty-stricken lives in Paris by looking to small farmers on the Gold Coast for information adaptable to their own country.
02 January 1994
When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.
02 January 1977
Documentary filmed over a period of four months, from 25 December 1975 to 5 March 1976, in the area of the former Spanish Sahara claimed by the people who lived there, the Saharawis, a people now mobilised and in arms (the Polisario Front) against Morocco and Mauritania, two states that have signed an agreement to share the territory.
01 June 2022
The story of Mohamed "Med" Hondo, from his humble beginnings in Mauritania, to smuggling himself on board a ship to France, to finding recognition as a modern African cinema director and actor.
07 April 1981
A documentary that critiques the neo-colonial destruction of indigenous African agriculture and economies, resulting in mass starvation.
01 January 1979
Taken during the filming of "West Indies," this film shows the making of the monumental set in the middle of the former Citroën factory, as well as backstage activity and rehearsals on the set.
01 January 1979
This film is a testimony. These are the images and sounds recorded throughout the area of struggle of the Saharawi people and they testify to their will to live free at home while placing the "Sahroui problem" in a real context.
05 April 1967
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
01 January 1965
BALLADE AUX SOURCES, Med Hondo’s first film, is a documentary about the journey of an African emigrant through his native land shortly after the independence of North Africa.
02 January 1998
Two men of different backgrounds lose their respective jobs, setting off a series of events that brings them together in tragic circumstances.
02 January 1979
Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression.
27 April 1976
Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity government in Chile, presided by Salvador Allende.
