SENEGAL · 1975

Xala

Ousmane Sembène
Senegalese Cinema polygamy political satire wedding impotence senegal curse public humiliation political corruption
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A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; the only cure is brutal public humiliation.

Year1975
CountrySenegal
DirectorOusmane Sembène
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