Med Hondo

Med Hondo

Рождение : 1936-05-04, Atar, Mauritania

Смерть : 2019-03-02

История

Med Hondo was a Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and voice actor. He emigrated to France in 1959 and began to work in film during the 1960s. He received critical acclaim for his 1967 directorial début Soleil O.

Профиль

Med Hondo

Фильмы

Spike
Raymon (voice)
Festive children's animation following the adventures of a young elf who graduates to Santa's workshop. Unfortunately, as hard as Spike tries, he struggles to adapt to life in the workshop and cause no end of trouble. From the award winning producer of Jungle Bunch, Spike is the amazing story of how a little elf save Christmas.
Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar
Director
In the aftermath of the Algerian War, a young Algerian woman reaches a strange reconciliation with the Senegalese officer who raped and impregnated her.
Antilles sur Seine
Horace
Corruption threatens to move into a heretofore idyllic village in this comedy-drama. Hector St. Rose is the mayor of a seaside community in the Antilles Islands, a French-controlled territory in the West Indies. Hector has long been determined not to sacrifice the well-being of his constituents in order to make the village more attractive to tourists, which has made him popular with his citizens, but not so much so with outside developers.
Watani: A World Without Evil
Writer
Two men of different backgrounds lose their respective jobs, setting off a series of events that brings them together in tragic circumstances.
Watani: A World Without Evil
Director
Two men of different backgrounds lose their respective jobs, setting off a series of events that brings them together in tragic circumstances.
Погоня за божеством
Le pilote
Из Африки во Францию перевозится бесценная статуэтка - `Танцующий Бог`. Ею мечтают завладеть проходимцы всех мастей. Самые хитрые из них пытаются подменить оригинал копией, и в результате возникшей неразберихи кому - то удается совершить подлог. Погони, приключения, головокружительные трюки, перестрелки - жизнь не стоит и копейки, когда на кону бесценное сокровище. Оно не может быть общим, им должен обладать кто - то один...
L'Année des Guignols : J'y arrive pas
Pierre Diouf (voice)
Black Light
Producer
When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.
Black Light
Screenplay
When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.
Black Light
Director
When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.
1871
Karl Marx
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
Ouaga
Sarraounia
Writer
On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
Sarraounia
Director
On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
Hunger Of The World
Director
A documentary that critiques the neo-colonial destruction of indigenous African agriculture and economies, resulting in mass starvation.
West Indies
Producer
A single-set color musical tracing the history of the West Indies through several centuries of French oppression.
West Indies
Writer
A single-set color musical tracing the history of the West Indies through several centuries of French oppression.
West Indies
Director
A single-set color musical tracing the history of the West Indies through several centuries of French oppression.
Polisario, un peuple en armes
Director
This film is a testimony. These are the images and sounds recorded throughout the area of ​​struggle of the Saharawi people and they testify to their will to live free at home while placing the "Sahroui problem" in a real context. Ex-Spanish colony whose wealth is considerable, Western Sahara should, like many African countries, gain independence according to United Nations resolutions.
Safrana or Freedom of Speech
Narrator (voice)
Four young African workers attempt to break the spell of their poverty-stricken lives in Paris by looking to small farmers on the Gold Coast for information adaptable to their own country.
We Shall Have the Whole of Death to Sleep
Editor
Documentary filmed over a period of four months, from 25 December 1975 to 5 March 1976, in the area of the former Spanish Sahara claimed by the people who lived there, the Saharawis, a people now mobilised and in arms (the Polisario Front) against Morocco and Mauritania, two states that have signed an agreement to share the territory.
We Shall Have the Whole of Death to Sleep
Director
Documentary filmed over a period of four months, from 25 December 1975 to 5 March 1976, in the area of the former Spanish Sahara claimed by the people who lived there, the Saharawis, a people now mobilised and in arms (the Polisario Front) against Morocco and Mauritania, two states that have signed an agreement to share the territory.
The Spiral
Narrator (French version) (voice)
Documentary about the military coup in Chile.
The Ambassadors
Med
"Ambassadors" is a euphemistic name given by the French to Arab "guest-workers," or imported laborers. In this film, the Arab workers are shown enduring the difficulties of life in a racist society, as well as the hardships they impose on one another.
The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors
Writer
A lucid, sincere and intricate political film, it demonstrates how French neocolonialism exploits migrant labor and exerts a cultural imperialism over their minds.
The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors
Director
A lucid, sincere and intricate political film, it demonstrates how French neocolonialism exploits migrant labor and exerts a cultural imperialism over their minds.
О, солнце
Production Design
О тяготах жизни африканского иммигранта во Франции.
О, солнце
Writer
О тяготах жизни африканского иммигранта во Франции.
О, солнце
Director
О тяготах жизни африканского иммигранта во Франции.
My Neighbours
Director
African migrants in Paris talk about everyday life and racism on the labour and housing markets. The chanson from which the film takes its title sings of misery on people’s own doorstep. Hondo then switches to another mode to continue his analysis of social conditions: never has the post-colonial state of the world been summarised as succinctly as in the closing animated sequence.
A Walk with Love and Death
Entertainer
Attempting to evade the turmoil of France's Hundred Years' War, Parisian student Heron of Foix decides to journey to the sea. En route, he meets the pretty aristocrat Lady Claudia, and the couple begin a romance amid the intense conflict. As the struggle between peasants and noblemen rages on, Heron and Claudia take shelter at a monastery -- but even their newfound love can't completely keep the horrors of war at bay.
Один человек лишний
Florent
1943 год. Группа французского Сопротивления получает из Лондона приказ освободить двенадцать человек, приговоренных немецкими оккупантами к расстрелу. Партизанский отряд проводит исключительную по дерзости операцию и освобождает пленников. Мчится по улицам города крытый грузовик, в кузове которого 13 бывших смертников. Откуда же взялся тринадцатый, и кто он, этот лишний человек?
Мужское-женское
Man in the Metro (uncredited)
Поль встречает в кафе Мадлен, между ними завязывается разговор — странный и внешне отвлеченный, как всегда бывает у Годара. Поль пишет стихи, увлекается левыми идеями, он интеллектуал и герой своего времени, поэтому остается в меньшинстве. Он только что отслужил в армии и воспринимает гражданку немного свысока. Это «женская», то есть уютная конформистская жизнь, где занимаются шопингом, строят карьеру поп-певицы и хотят походить на персонажей рекламы.
Môl
Narrator
A young fisherman dreams of motorizing his boat to make his work easier. His dream becomes reality, thanks to his courage and his determination but causes conflict between traditional values and the modern notion of progress.
La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
Magny
Les Verts Pâturages
St Pierre
A French TV movie directed by Jean-Christophe Averty , broadcast on December 24, 1964 . The Old Testament set in Louisiana with an all black cast.