Gaston Kaboré’s movie «Zan Boko explores the conflict between tradition and modernity with a family in a rural contexr. It has been for long time a central theme in many African films. Kaboré tells the poignant story of a village family swept up in the current tide of urbanization. In doing so, «Zan Boko» expertly reveals the transformation of an agrarian, subsistence society into an industrialized commodity economy.
Director: Gaston Kaboré.
Writer: Gaston Kaboré.
Stars: Mathias Bayili, Colette Kaboré, Joseph Nikiema, Gady Pafadnam, Simone Tapsoba, Hippolyte Wangrawa.
Cinematographers: Sékou Ouedraogo, Issaka Thiombiano.
Composers: Don Cherry, Henri Guédon.
What a wonderful movies, It still reflects on what is still happening in most African countries today.
A microcosm on the pretexts used to justify selfish ends in the name of modernity: Who gets to turn the wheels of progress and who gets crushed beneath the wheel. Zan Boko is an affecting film that deserves an international viewership.
Brutally honest filming of the overpowering of the downtrodden class by the affluent people in the guise of progress and urbanization, with the bureaucratic help in third-world countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.