I, a Negro

Plot

Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.

Cast

Oumarou Ganda

Edward G. Robinson

Petit Touré

Eddie Constantine

Alassane Maiga

Tarzan

Amadou Demba

Elite

Gambi

Dorothy Lamour

Seydou Guede

Le facteur

Karidyo Faoudou

Petit Jules

Edmond Bernus

L'italien