Timité Bassori (born 30 December 1933) is an Ivorian filmmaker, actor, and writer. His lone feature-length film, ''
The Woman with the Knife'' (1969), is considered a classic of
African cinema
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, and is slated to be restored as part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative to preserve 50 African films through the collaboration of the groups
FEPACI
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UNESCO
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Cineteca di Bologna
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, and
Martin Scorsese
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's
The Film Foundation
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. The film is earmarked to be shown along with 4 other restored films at the 2019 film festival
FESPACO
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.
Biography
Timité Bassori is one of the pioneers of
Ivorian cinema.
Of
Mandé-
Dioula origin, he was born on December 30, 1933, in
Aboisso
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in the extreme south-east of Côte d'Ivoire; After attending elementary school there. in 1949, he entered the Technical College of Abidjan, commercial section. he completed his studies in 1952 and worked in various commercial establishments.
Wanting to do theater, he left for PARIS; first at
Cours Simon from 1956 to 1957 then at the Center d'Art Dramatique on rue Blanche from 1957 to 1958.
President of the Compagnie d'Art Dramatique des GRIOTS, which he founded in 1957 with student friends.
The film ''Bouka'' (
Roger Gnoan M'Bala
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, 1988) is based upon his short story "Jeux dangereux" (1974).
Filmography
As director
*''The Foresters'' (documentary; 1963)
*''Abidjan-Niger'' (documentary; 1963)
*''Amédée Pierre'' (documentary; 1963)
*''
On the Dune of Solitude'' (1964)
*''The Sixth Furrow'' (1966)
*''Bush Fires'' (1967)
*''
The Woman with the Knife'' (1969)
*''Abidjan, the Lagoon Pearl'' (1971)
*''Bondoukou, Year 11'' (1971)
*''Odienné, Year 12'' (1972)
*''Kossou 1'' (1972)
*''Kossou 2'' (1974)
*''The Akati Fellows'' (1974)
[Shiri 1992, p. 29]
As producer
*''The Woman with the Knife'' (1969)
*''
Black and White in Color
''Black and White in Color'' (french: La Victoire en chantant, then ''Noirs et Blancs en couleur'' for the 1977 re-issue) is a French-Ivorian 1976 war film and black comedy directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in his directorial debut. The film is set ...
'' (1976)
*''Weeds'' (1978)
As assistant director
*''
Man from Cocody
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'' (1965)
[Pfaff 1988, p. 35]
Literature
*1974: ''Les Bannis du village''
*1983: ''Grelots d'or''
*1986: ''Les eaux claires de ma source''
Notes
References
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1933 births
Ivorian film directors
Ivorian novelists
Living people
People of French West Africa