1975 2h 1m Ousmane Sembène

Xala

Name: Xala
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1975
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang, Seune Samb, Fatim Diagne

★ 6.7 IMDb

Comedy Drama

A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; the only cure is brutal public humiliation.

Writer Ousmane Sembène

Cast Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang, Seune Samb, Fatim Diagne

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Women in "Xala by Françoise Pfaff, Jump Cut

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Ousamane Sembene by Jonathan Rosenbaum Ousmane Sembène by Yasmina Price, 4Columns

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