Actor

Djibril Diop Mambéty

January 1, 1945 · Dakar, Senegal

Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family near Dakar, Senegal's capital city, Mambéty was Wolof. He died in 1998 while being treated for lung cancer in a Paris hospital.

Often works with

Aminata Fall
3 titles together
Touki Bouki, The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, Le Franc
Idrissa Ouedraogo
2 titles together
The Making of Yaaba, 10,000 Years of Cinema
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Christoph Colomb
2 titles together
Touki Bouki, Badou Boy

Full filmography · 10

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Director and Writer
19996.8
Le Franc
Director and Writer
1995
Hyenas
as The Judge and Writer and Director
19927.2
Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane
cast
1991
10,000 Years of Cinema
cast
1991
The Making of Yaaba
Director and Writer
1989
Touki Bouki
Writer and Director
19736.6
Badou Boy
cast and Writer and Director
1970
Contras' City
cast and Director
1969
The Death Knell
as Narrator and Writer
1964