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Lady from Osogbo

  • Dame d'Osogbo (La)
Genre : Biography
Type : Documentary
Original title : Lady of Osogbo (The)
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2007
Format : Feature
Running time : 77 (in minutes)

Portrait of the austrian artist Susanne Wenger, her Yoruba family and Osun Osogbo's sacred groves (Nigeria). The artist who had been initiated in yoruba religion has permitted the salvation and inscription of the groves to Unesco' Humanity World Heritage after 50 years of intense struggling together with her Yoruba companions.

directed by Pierre Guicheney
2007, France, 1h17 & 52 minutes

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