And Then There Was Light

Name: And Then There Was Light
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1989-11-20
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Cast: Sigalon Sagna, Saly Badji, Binta Cissé, Marie-Christine Dieme, Fatou Seydi

1989, French. Directed by Otar Iosseliani.

Events in an idyllic African village are shown in detail in the period just before logging trucks come in and cut down the forest around the villagers, forcing them to move into the wretched shantytowns that surround major cities throughout the undeveloped world. Despite the familiar premise, this surprisingly unsentimental film by Georgian director Otar Ioselliani has several things going for it, beginning with the cinematography and including the natural and unaffected (non-professional) performances of the villagers.

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Runtime: 1h 45m
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Language: French
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Released: 20 November 1989
Original title: Et la lumière fut
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Written by: Otar Iosseliani

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And Then There Was Light (1989) was directed by Otar Iosseliani and stars Sigalon Sagna, Saly Badji, Binta Cissé.