''Black'' is a 2008 French
blaxploitation
Blaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The term, a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation", was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, the president o ...
film directed by Pierre Laffargue.
Synopsis
Black, a Frenchman with African roots, commits in France a heist with some complices. The early arrival of alarmed police kindles a shooting. Black's complices are killed and he can only scarcely escape by jumping from a bridge onto a running train. When he is all alone in his hideout, he receives a long-distance call from a cousin in Africa. Black is asked to rob diamonds from a bank. His cousin makes him believe this was easily done.
Black travels consequently to Africa. Once there, he has to realise that the responsible Africans he intends to rob are more sophisticated than he had thought. Moreover, a group of Russian soldiers of fortune also wants to steal the diamonds. Black outsmarts them and retrieves the diamonds during their holdup. Unfortunately his cousin tries to betray him. That is his cousin's downfall.
Now all on his own, Black is caught by a feisty female police agent. Soon both are hunted by vengeful former Russian commandos. While trying to elude, they get entangled in a local mystic prophecy and their struggle is lifted to a higher, supernatural level.
Cast
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MC Jean Gab'1 as Black
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Carole Karemera
Carole Umulinga Karemera (born 1975) is a Rwandan actress, dancer, saxophone player, and playwright.
Biography
She was born in 1975 in Brussels, the daughter of Rwandan exiles. As a child, Karemara excelled at mathematics and dreamed of opening ...
as Pamela
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François Levantal
François Levantal (born 14 October 1960) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1986.
Filmography
Theater
Music videos
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Levantal, Francois
1960 births
Living people
F ...
as Degrand
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Mata Gabin
Mata Gabin is an actress, author, and actress of theatre, born in 1972 in Toulépleu, Ivory Coast. She is of French nationality.
Biography
She was born on the border of Liberia and Ivory Coast, to a Liberian- Guinean mother and a father f ...
as Fatoumata
* Anton Yakovlev as Ouliakov
* Christophe Aquillon
Festivals
* Festival du film d'Avignon 2008
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SXSW Film Festival
South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Te ...
- Fantastic Fest at Midnight 2009
* Seattle International Film Festival 2009
* Fantasia 2009
* Film 4 FRIGHT FEST at London 2009
* Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2009
* Fresh Film Fest 2009 (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic)
International Release
* Canada : Montreal: July 31, 2009 / Quebec & Sherbrooke: August, 2009
* Canada in DVD on October 6, 2009
References
External links
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Canadian Distributor : Evokative Films*
Pictures
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2008 films
French exploitation films
Films set in Senegal
Hood films