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Title:MADAME BROUETTE
Title year:2002
Original dialogue(s):French
Running time:105 min sec
Description:Proud and independent, Mati, also known as Madame Brouette (“Mrs. Wheelbarrow”), makes a living by pushing her wheelbarrow through the marketplace in Sandaga. Divorced from an abusive husband, she dreams of getting enough money together to open her own shop. Just when Mati thinks she no longer believes in love, she meets Naago, a cop.

Credited as:
Director(s):Moussa Sene Absa
Screen writer(s):Moussa Sene Absa
Gilles Desjardins

Credited as: Character name:
Actor(s):Ousseynou Diop
Rokhaya Niang
Aboubacar Sadikh Bâ
Kadiatou Sy
Ndèye Seneba Seck
Akéla Sagna
Pape Mboup
Sidi Niang
Mamadou Pène
Magdaan Momar Guèye
Seune Sène
Ibrahima Mbaye
Moustapha Niang
Juliette Aita Ba
Mody Fall
Ibrahima Mbaye Sope

Credited as:
Producer(s):Rock Demers
Danielle Champoux
Moussa Sene Absa
Claude Galaizeau

Credited as:
Editor(s):Matthieu Roy-Décarie
Musician(s):Majoly
Serge Fiori
Madou Diabate
Photography:Jean-Jacques Bouhon

Support:35mm 34 perf Col BW Fuji Kodak

Festival(s):Montréal (Parisien 5) 19h00August 27, 2002
Release:Montréal (Ex-Centris FST; Parisien EST)February 13, 2004


Financial %:
Co-finance:Country production

Location(s):Dakar (Sénégal)

Distributor(s):
Distribution area:QuebecQc Christal Films Distribution Inc.

CFFD Reference No.: 3672