Released:
1959-03-12

Overview:
Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.

Director:
Jean Rouch

Runtime:
1h 10min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Oumarou Ganda
  as
  Edward G. Robinson
• 
  Petit Touré
  as
  Eddie Constantine
• 
  Alassane Maiga
  as
  Tarzan
• 
  Amadou Demba
  as
  Elite
• 
  Gambi
  as
  Dorothy Lamour