Daresalam
Sign in to saveDaresalam (English: "Let There Be Peace") is a 2000 dramatic film by Chadian director Issa Serge Coelo. It has been considered one of the very few recent African films that has treated the theme of the internecine conflicts that have ravaged the African continent since independence. While set in a fictional African country called Daresalam, it reflects the civil war that ravaged Chad during the 1960s and 1970s.
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6.0In a small Central African village, boyhood friends Djimi and Koni have come of age under a post-colonial government that levies crippling taxes and legally robs local farmers of their meager crops. When impulsive Koni savagely attacks a visiting government official, the resulting massacre forces the two friends on a journey that will transform them from boys into men, from farmers into soldiers and from villagers into revolutionaries. "We fight in one world so we can live in another," declares Koni as the two battle shoulder to shoulder against government troops. But while Koni embraces the politics and carnage of their dangerous new guerilla existence, Djimi longs for the simplicity and grace of the village life they've left behind. As the rebels move closer to victory, the two friends move closer to a clash of their own.
Released: 2001-01-01100 minDir: Issa Serge CoeloDrama, War
Cast
- Haikal Zakaria as Djimi
- Abdoulaye Ahmat as Koni
- Gérard Essomba as Adoum
- Sidiki Bakaba as Félix
- Youssouf Djaoro as Tom
- Garba Issa as Yacoub
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Key dates
- Published
- 1 January 2000
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- Shuwa
- Director
- Issa Serge Coelo
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Article
4 sectionsContents
- Synopsis
- Reception and evaluation
- Notes and references
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Daresalam (English: "Let There Be Peace") is a 2000 dramatic film by Chadian director Issa Serge Coelo. It has been considered one of the very few recent African films that has treated the theme of the internecine conflicts that have ravaged the African continent since independence. While set in a fictional African country called Daresalam, it reflects the civil war that ravaged Chad during the 1960s and 1970s.
== Synopsis == The film takes place in a fictional central African country (called Daresalam, "the Land of Peace" in Arabic) amidst a civil war. It features as main characters two young friends, Koni (Haikal Zakaria) and Djimi (Abdoulaye Ahmat), whose peaceful existence is interrupted when the central government arrives in their village, harassing them and browbeating the villagers into paying new taxes to help fight the civil war. thumb|left|300px A heated discussion ensues, which degenerates, causing the death of a government official, which causes in retaliation the burning of the village and the massacre of its inhabitants. Koni, Djimi, and others join the rebellion, but the rebels eventually split, with Djimi remaining with the hardliners and Koni going instead with a faction that supports compromise with the government. The two friends become estranged. Koni will later be executed in a coup, while Djimi will leave the rebels and return to his home village with a war widow and a sewing machine left to him by a fallen combatant, with which he can attempt to start a new life for himself and his family.