Med Hondo
Med Hondo ( born May 4, 1936 in Atar, Mauritania; actually Abib Mohamed Medoun Hondo ) is a Mauritanian film director and actor who is best known in France.
Life and work
Hondo came with 25 years to France, where he worked first as a dish washer, Docker and helpers on various farms when he founded a theater company in Paris. Parallel to the theater, the Africans dedicate tete also the medium of film, starred in several short films, as in 1967 with the filming of his first feature film, Soleil O, began. The strip that addressed the experiences of an African immigrant and thus constituted an attack on neo-colonialism, attracted nationwide attention. Bicots - negres vos voisins (1974 ) is a film about the experience of emigration to France and racism. The historical film West Indies (1979 ) won the prize of the festival of Dakar.
In Sarraounia he depicts the struggle of an African queen against the French colonizers.