Djibril Diop Mambéty
January 1, 1945 (79 years old) in Dakar, Senegal
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2002 · Mambéty as Self
- 1996 · Grandma's Grammar as Himself
- 1992 · Hyenas as The Judge
- 1991 · Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane as
- 1991 · 10,000 Years of Cinema as
- 1969 · City of Contrasts as
- 1964 · The Death Knell as Narrator