Samba Traore

Synopsis

In Idrissa Ouédraogo's classic drama, two men commit a crime at a service station. One of them is killed, the other, Samba, flees with a suitcase full of banknotes. Samba returns to his village where he begins a new life… But does one ever forget the past which hunts us? This new 4K restoration by the Locarno Film Festival and Cinegrell Zurich of Samba Traoré, a tense and visually rich modern noir classic from Burkina Faso, was selected as one of the ten best restorations of 2024 by Film Comment and, in 2022, one of the 10 greatest films of all time by Luca Guadagnino.

For this 4K restoration, the 35mm original image and sound negative were digitized in high quality, digitally restored, and a new color grading was applied by Cinegrell. All the original elements are preserved at the Cinematheque Suisse on behalf of Waka Films.

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