Djibril Diop Mambéty
Film director
1945 – 1998
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Who was Djibril Diop Mambéty?
Djibril Diop Mambéty was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only a small number of films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family near Dakar, Senegal's capital city, Mambéty was Wolof. He died in 1998 while being treated for lung cancer in a Paris hospital.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1945
Gueule Tapée-Fass-Colobane - Also known as
- Djibril Diop Mambety
- Parents
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- Wolof people
- Nationality
- Senegal
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 23, 1998
Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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