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The Ring of King Koda

La bague du roi Koda

Moustapha Alassane—a pioneering African filmmaker born in Benin and living in Niger for most of his life—came to cinema with an already-developed flair for storytelling. According to writer Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike, “His extreme talent for drawing and his quest for invention prompted him, before he even knew what cinema was, to organize a one-man exhibition in which he projected his color drawings for his audience by using transparent cellophane wrappers from cigarette packets.”

With the support of the Institut Français

Director

Moustapha Alassane

Country

Niger

Year

1962

Dialogue Languages

French Hausa

Subtitle Language

English

Distributor

Agathe Morisse