Touki Bouki
(1973)
★ 6.6 IMDb · 124 votes
Year: 1973
Runtime: 91 мин
Country: Senegal
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Cast: Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang, Christoph Colomb, Mustapha Ture, Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop, Ndou Labia
Plot
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
Mory, a cowherd who rides a motorcycle mounted with a cow's skull, and Anta, a university student, have met in Dakar, Senegal's capital. Alienated and disaffected with Senegal and Africa, they long to go to Paris and work up different con schemes to raise the money. Mory steals clothing and money from a wealthy gay man who had brought him home, and he and Anta book passage on a ship to France.