Waalo Fendo - Where the Earth Freezes (1998)
Milan, like Paris or Stuttgart, and like many other European cities, is the theater of the drama of immigration. Demba reconstructs his story and that of his brother Yaro, both Senegalese immigrants in Italy, in a long and fragmentary flashback that begins with Yaro’s murder and recounts their departure from the village, arrival in Europe, the work they find selling lighters and picking tomatoes in the south of Italy: the stages every “non-EEC citizen” goes through in Italy.
Director: Mohammed Soudani
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Saidou Moussa Ba as |
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Baara N'Gom as |
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Souleymane Seye Ndiaye as |
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Oumar Ba as |
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Mamadou Ba as |
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Abdoulaye Konte as |
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Mohamed Ataoui as |
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Semba Lamel as |
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Mastro Bartolo as |
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Djibril Ndiaye as |
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Cissoko Dialika as |
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Vito Savalli as |
| Directing | Mohammed Soudani | Director |
| Writing | Mohammed Soudani | Writer |
| Writing | Saidou Moussa Ba | Writer |
| Writing | Antonio Mariotti | Writer |
| Production | Tiziana Soudani | Producer |
| Crew | Mohammed Soudani | Cinematography |
| Crew | Alessio Viola | Cinematography |
| Editing | Giorgio Garini | Editor |
| Editing | Paolo Gebhard | Editor |
| Sound | Giovanni Venosta | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Giorgio Garini | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Gaetano Agueci | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Mohammed Soudani | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Paolo Logli | Sound |
| Production | Tiziana Soudani | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Laura Sigon | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Giovanni Gebbia | Camera Operator |
| Crew | Jean-Pierre Suchet | Special Effects |
| Crew | Bernard Chevreul | Special Effects |
| Costume & Make-Up | Leonardo Borgese | Makeup & Hair |
| Production | Lorenzo Calzeroni | Production Director |