As Director, As Writer
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
1999
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Djibril Diop Mambéty
Acting
Birth date
January 1, 1945
Birth place
Dakar, Senegal
Death date
July 23, 1998
Biography
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.
