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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Cheick Oumar Sissoko |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
African/Multi-Lingual · Comedy · Comedy (General) · Fantasy |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
738329032234 |
| Release Date: |
1995 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 33min |
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Languages
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| Release Language: |
English (Subtitled) |
| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 33min
Release Company: Kino on Video (February 22, 2005)
UPC: 738329038724 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: Letterboxed Widescreen, 1hr 33min
Release Company: Kino on Video (July 20, 1999)
UPC: 738329032234 |
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Professional Reviews
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(07/12/1996, p.31, Roger Ebert): "...The story is straightforward, the visual style is glorious, and there is boundless energy and optimism in this fable of a tyrant..." |
| More Information |
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Taking place in a mythical African nation before colonization, GUIMBA THE TYRANT is a colorful and often hilarious fable about an imaginary city whose citizens are sick of its ruler. Guimba rules Sitikali with an iron fist, often beating subjects who disobey him personally. His son, Janguine, is a three foot tall dwarf whose sexual appetites have long plagued Sitikali's women, married or unmarried. However, when Janguine announces that he does not wish to marry his betrothed, the most beautiful woman in the city, but her mother instead, and Guimba obliges by banishing the mother's husband, the town revolts. A vastly entertaining fable about a tyrant who brings about his own downfall, GUIMBRA is a minutely detailed and stylish film that won the Pan African Film Festival's top prize upon its release. |
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