Sotigui Kouyaté

Sotigui Kouyaté

Born: July 19, 1936
Died: April 17, 2010
in Bamako, Mali
Sotigui Kouyaté was one of the first Malian, Burkinabé actors. He was the father of film director Dani Kouyaté, of the storyteller Hassane Kassi Kouyaté and of the actor Mabô Kouyaté and was a member of the Mandinka ethnic group.

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London River
Title: London River
Character: Ousmane
Released: February 9, 2009
Type: Movie
After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks
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Faro: Goddess of the Waters
Title: Faro: Goddess of the Waters
Character: Village Chief
Released: February 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Faro is a real goddess of a real tribe (the Bamana) in the West African country of Mali. In a landlocked country like Mali, covered in part by the Sahara Desert, water is a resource that can never be taken for granted. The Bamana village in Faro: Goddess of the Waters not only sits on a riverbank, but also depends for much of its food on fish from the river. Faro is the dominant character in this film, the unseen force for which all action takes place. (c) Ferdy on Films [Marilyn Ferdinand]
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The Ring Finger
Title: The Ring Finger
Character: Le cireur de chaussures
Released: June 8, 2005
Type: Movie
When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar kind. Without fully grasping what is at play around her, she gradually engages in a disturbing love affair with her enigmatic employer.
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Genesis
Title: Genesis
Character: Narrator
Released: September 26, 2004
Type: Movie
An African narrator tells the story of earth history, the birth of the universe and evolution of life. Beautiful imagery makes this movie documentary complete.
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The Truth About Charlie
Title: The Truth About Charlie
Character: Dealer Prophéte
Released: October 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. The more Reggie learns, the more she realizes the scope of the puzzle which she must solve to protect herself from ever-increasing danger.
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Dirty Pretty Things
Title: Dirty Pretty Things
Character: Shinti
Released: September 5, 2002
Type: Movie
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
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Sia, the Myth of the Python
Title: Sia, the Myth of the Python
Character: Wakhané
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Kaya Maghan, the despotic king of Wagadou, follows the instructions of his priest by ordering the religious sacrifice to the Python God of Sia Yatabaree, the virgin daughter of a notable family. A gift of gold equivalent to Sia’s weight is given to her family as compensation for surrendering their daughter for the sacrifice. However, Sia runs away and finds shelter in the home of a mad prophet who has railed against the king. The king orders his top general to locate Sia, but the general is conflicted since Sia was engaged to marry his nephew, Mamadi, who is in battle on behalf of the kingdom. Mamadi returns and joins his uncle to do battle against the Python God. - Wikipedia, accessed 31 July 2021
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Little Senegal
Title: Little Senegal
Character: Alloune
Released: April 18, 2001
Type: Movie
Passionné par l'histoire de son peuple, Alloune, un vieux guide du musée africain "La Maison des Esclaves" à Gorée, part en pèlerinage pour retrouver les descendants de ses ancêtres aux Etats-Unis. Cet émouvant voyage va le mener des côtes de Caroline du Sud au quartier de Harlem où vit la communauté africaine, Little Senegal. Alloune, animé par l'idée de réunir sa famille par delà les siècles et les frontières, remonte jusqu'à une lointaine cousine, Ida, qui ignore tout de son passé. Le vieil homme croise également les chemins de son neveu Hassan, chauffeur de taxi clandestin, de sa fiancée Biram, d'Eileen, enceinte et fugueuse, et de Karim, qui cherche à faire un mariage blanc pour obtenir la carte verte. Tous les quatre comprennent mal la quête d'Alloune.
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Genesis
Title: Genesis
Character: Jacob
Released: September 8, 1999
Type: Movie
Inspired by the book of Genesis, this film tells the power struggle between two families: a clan of herders led by Jacob and another clan of hunters fronted by his brother Esau. Caught in the crossfire is their cousin, Hamor and his tribe of farmers.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Keita! The Voice of the Griot
Title: Keita! The Voice of the Griot
Character: Djeliba Kouyaté
Released: April 12, 1996
Type: Movie
It is an ordinary afternoon for young Mabo Keïta, at home, in Burkina Faso (West Africa). While his parents are taking a nap, he reads a schoolbook on the front porch when a stranger - an elderly man carrying his own hammock - appears for an unexpected visit. It turns out that the old man is a griot, a West African musician/entertainer whose performances include tribal histories and genealogies. The position of a griot is a time-honored one and passed down from father to son for many generations.
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La Plante Humaine
Title: La Plante Humaine
Released: February 22, 1996
Type: Movie
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Sotigui Kouyaté, a modern griot
Title: Sotigui Kouyaté, a modern griot
Character: Sotegui Kouyaté
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Through testimonies by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Pierre Guigane, and Sotigui Kouyate himself, SOTIGUI KOUYATE: A MODERN GRIOT dresses the portrait of one of Africa's greatest actor now based in Paris. From Africa to Europe, the film unveils the multiple facets of Sotigui Kouyate, actor, musician and modern griot.
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Bad Kid
Title: Bad Kid
Character: Tewfik
Released: September 14, 1995
Type: Movie
The struggles of a 28-year-old mother in Lyon who tries to combine her love life and raising her 12-year-old rebel son.
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On the Edge
Title: On the Edge
Character: Gas station attendant
Released: July 26, 1995
Type: Movie
A man. A woman. A single night in Paris. Such is the basic framework of this French romance that begins when middle-aged middle-class housewife Clara, happily drives to the airport to meet her husband who was supposed to come in on the evening flight and is devastated to learn that he has remained at his hotel and is having an affair. Clara sees a younger man eating a sandwich and asks him to have a drink. Later, she and he, an amiable baggage handler, spend the evening talking and exploring the nightlife on the outskirts of Paris. There they meet many people from other countries who come to Paris and work as laborers.
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Le Dur Métier de policier
Title: Le Dur Métier de policier
Character: Alan
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Names Live Nowhere
Title: Names Live Nowhere
Released: September 10, 1994
Type: Movie
A Senegalese storyteller travels to Belgium and observes the lives of African expatriates in Europe. Dreams and struggles great and small are explored.
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Wendemi
Title: Wendemi
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: Movie
When Cecile (Sylvie Yameogo), an unwed mother-to-be, refuses to identify the father of her child, she is thrown out of her parents' home and eventually leaves her baby in a field, where another family finds him and takes him home. Michel (Alassane Dakissaga), the head of the household, reluctantly assumes responsibility for the baby after going to the police, the local priest and the traditional village chief, each of whom advises him to seek the counsel of another authority.
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Lost in Transit
Title: Lost in Transit
Character: Knak
Released: September 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Hijad
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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Golem, l'esprit de l'exil
Title: Golem, l'esprit de l'exil
Character: Boaz
Released: September 24, 1992
Type: Movie
An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husbands. It is set in 1990s Paris, where the director was living in self-imposed exile following the ban on his 1982 documentary in Israel. The recurring theme of the film is migrations and unrooting, like the legendary Golem.
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IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
Title: IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
Character: Emile
Released: June 12, 1992
Type: Movie
Young graffiti artist Tony and his friend Jockey jump-start an unexpected adventure on the streets of Grenoble, France, when they steal a car that's already occupied by an older man who's been sleeping in the back, Léon Marcel.
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The Sheltering Sky
Title: The Sheltering Sky
Character: Abdelkader
Released: October 25, 1990
Type: Movie
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
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The Mahabharata
Title: The Mahabharata
Character: Bhishma, Parashurama
Released: January 24, 1990
Type: Movie
One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic.
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Mamy Wata
Title: Mamy Wata
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
1968: Justin Ohounou is the Minister of the Interior Department. He is involved in scheming with a corrupt business man. His goal is to eliminate by all means his political enemy Christian Adegbe and all of the Adegbe Tribe.
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Boulevards d'Afrique
Title: Boulevards d'Afrique
Character: Prospective Bridegroom
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A Film by Jean Rouch and Tam-Sir Doueb.
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How Good the Whites Are
Title: How Good the Whites Are
Character: Le chef de tribu
Released: January 20, 1988
Type: Movie
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across the continent. As a result of the difficulties the team encounters, disorganization gradually takes over the convoy. Each of the members of the group, little by little, yield to their petty, selfish impulses: violence, power, nostalgia - The breakdown of one of the trucks forces Michele and Nadia to wait at an oasis for the arrival of spare parts. But a starving local tribe settles threateningly near them. The chief of the tribe makes a speech they don't understand, which is followed by a macabre purification ceremony.
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Descent Into Hell
Title: Descent Into Hell
Released: November 6, 1986
Type: Movie
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...
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La Princesse Yennega
Title: La Princesse Yennega
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Yennenga was a legendary princess and a famous warrior, considered to be the mother of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso who lived between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. The cut-out paper animation is an adaptation of a tale by Bila Kaboré.
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Days of Torment
Title: Days of Torment
Released: July 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Young people call into question their village's customs and create an agricultural co-operative.
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Paweogo
Title: Paweogo
Released: July 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Bila, a young peasant, decides to go to Ivory Coast to work and is asked by his parents to accompany Pogbi who is going to meet her fiancé, through an arranged marriage, for the first time. However, Pogbi is in love with Rasmane, a pariah from the smiths' caste, and runs away.
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The Courage of Others
Title: The Courage of Others
Released: May 5, 1982
Type: Movie
An inside look at slavery in the country of Burkina Faso, The Courage Of Others follows the journey of a slave (played by Sotigui Kouyaté) being taken across the African desert by his captors.
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Toula, or the Genie of the Water
Title: Toula, or the Genie of the Water
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
The gods have declared the drought of the country. There seems to be no hope. A holy man summoned by the king requires the sacrifice of a young woman to put an end to their anger. A young man in love decides to go in search of water to save the girl from a tragic end, but when he returns with good news it's too late: the genie had his satisfaction and Toula has already disappeared in the holy swamp.
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Women Cars Villas Money
Title: Women Cars Villas Money
Released: January 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Ali is the image of modern Africa. He happily returns from a football match on his motorbike but a nasty surprise is waiting for him at his parents' home: he finds Haoua, his bride-to-be, waiting for him. The wedding is celebrated shortly afterwards and the two begin living together under the same roof. They are strangers but cannot stand each other. Haoua is the classic traditional woman who has just arrived from the village, God-fearing and faithful to the laws of tradition. Ali's friends advise him to look for a second wife. He meets Henriette, an uninhibited and provocative city girl, the woman of his dreams. To meet Henriette's constant requests, Ali 'borrows' some money from the coffers of commander Soleymane, but he is discovered and ends up in prison. Henriette is furious and leaves him, whilst Haoua cries for him in despair.