''Histoires Drôles et Drôles de Gens'' is a 1983

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa (born 1940) is a Cameroonian film director and writer. He produced Cameroon's first full-length feature film, '' Muna Moto'', in 1975. Dikongué Pipa's films deal with the interrelationships between elements of tradition ...

Synopsis

An African storyteller humorously and kindly talks about how some of his fellow countrymen are emulating the habits of white people and "Their stuff". He thus presents several cases to prove his point. In one of them a supposed to be planter and businessman who underpays an employee gets framed by his own folks. A young boy jumps from a high tree with an open umbrella to copy the way the parachutists do in the city. A few other examples are as pathetic or comical. At the epilogue our storyteller finds himself being laughed at, at a bistro in Paris. The way he deals with the situation is kind and again humorous. This was the last film directed by

and it was lost for around two decades.

Bibliography

* Armes, Roy, ´Dictionary of African filmmakers´, Indiana University Press, 2008, p. 148

External links

Histoires Drôles et Drôles de Gens
- IMDb page about ''Histoires Drôles et Drôles de Gens''
Article (in French) in) no Africultures

Article (in French) in Africiné
1983 films Cameroonian comedy films 1980s French-language films 1983 comedy films {{1980s-comedy-film-stub

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