The Heart's Cry
Encyclopedia
The Heart's Cry is a 1994
Burkinabé
/French
drama film
directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo
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. At the age of eleven, he moves with his family to live in Paris
. Moctar struggles to adjust to life in France, and is homesick for Africa. He begins to see visions of a hyena
in the street. When he tells people, nobody believes him. He is laughed at by his schoolmates and sent to the school psychologist. He meets a man in the street called Paulo who helps Moctar to understand his visions.
1994 in film
1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...
Burkinabé
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...
/French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Idrissa Ouedraogo is a film director from Burkina Faso. He is best known for his films Yaaba and Tilaï.-Biography:...
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Plot
Moctar is a young boy who, although born in France, has grown up in MaliMali
Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...
. At the age of eleven, he moves with his family to live in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. Moctar struggles to adjust to life in France, and is homesick for Africa. He begins to see visions of a hyena
Hyena
Hyenas or Hyaenas are the animals of the family Hyaenidae of suborder feliforms of the Carnivora. It is the fourth smallest biological family in the Carnivora , and one of the smallest in the mammalia...
in the street. When he tells people, nobody believes him. He is laughed at by his schoolmates and sent to the school psychologist. He meets a man in the street called Paulo who helps Moctar to understand his visions.
Cast
- Richard BohringerRichard BohringerRichard Bohringer is a French actor.-Personal life:Bohringer was born in Moulins, Allier. He is the father of actress Romane Bohringer, and has two other children, Richard and Lou.-Career:...
as Paulo - Saïd Diarra as Moctar
- Félicité Wouassi as Saffi
- Alex Descas as Ibrahim Sow
- Clémentine CélariéClémentine Célarié-Filmography:-References:...
as Deborah - Jean-Yves Gautier as Paul Guerin
- Cheik Doukouré as Mamadou
- Adama Ouédraogo as Adama
- Ginette Fabet as Firmine
- Adama Kouyaté as Grandfather
- Valérie Gil as Miss Romand
- Grégoire Le Du as Olivier