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Mandabi

1968

When an unemployed man in Dakar receives a money order from a nephew in Paris, the small windfall turns his life upside down as relatives, neighbors, and a maze of bureaucracy all scheme to get a piece of it. Ousmane Sembène's warm, sharp satire.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Senegal

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