El Hadji Abdoukader Beye, a Senegalese businessman and a muslim, takes on a third wife, thereby demonstrating his social and economic success. On the wedding night he discovers that he is incapable of consummating the marriage; he has become impotent. At the beginning, he suspects that one or both of his first two wives have put the spell on him, without realizing that he walks by the true guilty party every day (beggars and people he has stolen from). The film criticizes the African leaders’ attitude after Independence, underlining their greed and their inability to step away from foreign influences.
Tag: 1970s
On a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisioning and become incapacitated. To save the aircraft, the cabin crew locate a passenger with flying experience. He is coached by an experienced pilot on the ground.
Based on the story “The Heroes of Yucca,” The Invincible Six features a ragtag group of jewel thieves who become the unofficial guardians of a small Iranian village. When bandits attack the village, looking for the body of their former leader and his treasure map, the Invincible Six are there to save the day, wooing the local females and frustrating the new leader of the bandits.
On 31 January 1977, the Centre George Pompidou opened its doors to the public in Paris. Three months later, on 6 May, Roberto Rossellini wrapped up the editing of a 54-minute film that testified to the public’s response to the project. The great Neo-Realist filmmaker was proposed by Jacques Grandclaude, spreadhead of the Communauté de Cinéma, to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to celebrate the opening of the building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.
Trying to keep her head above water, New Yorker Doris accepts money for sexual favors from men who occasionally visit her apartment, a practice that bugs her neighbor, Felix, an unsuccessful writer. Felix gets her booted, but when she complains to him, he lets her bunk at his place. Reserved Felix and outlandish Doris have little in common, but as they’re forced to spend more time together, their proximity leads to an increasing mutual fondness.
A magazine editor suffers a heart attack and begins to reminisce about the happy childhood he spent with his father. The memories cause him to wonder about the family he has raised since growing up.
The wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom-$1 million for each of them. One of the wives, a diabetic, needs her insulin medication or she will soon die. One of the husbands refuses to pay his share of the ransom because he believes that his wife is having an affair with another man.
A television adaptation of the play by Luigi Pirandello, which transposes the traditional theatrical setting to a television studio. As a group of actors prepare for a rehearsal of a TV adaptation of the Pirandello play – `The Rules of the game’ – six strangers mysteriously appear and confront the director and actors with a proposition that their story is more interesting than the play at hand.