Information
- BFI identifier360976
- Date1990 (Copyright)
1991-02-22 (Release) - Production countryBurkina Faso, France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Italy
- Production companyLes Films de l'Avenir, Rhéa Productions, Waka Films, Government of Burkina Faso, Ministère Français de la Coopération, Ministère Français de la Culture, BBC, Centro Orientamento Educativo, Film Cooperative, Compagnie UTA, Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche (Bern), Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, La Fondation GAN pour le cinéma
- SynopsisThe law of a village wins when a father takes a son's fiancée to make her his own second wife. When the son and girl run off to live together the son is branded guilty of incest, since the girl would have been his mother. Because of the law everybody in the family suffers. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirector: Idrissa Ouédraogo
Production Company: Les Films de l'Avenir
Production Company: Rhéa Productions
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Title
Tilaï (Original)
Question d'honneur (Alternative)
The Law (Alternative)
A Question of Honour (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/DC8B-C46B-B7D0-06D4-F04B-ZCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: English Dialogue List - SCR-2373
Script - Script type: English Dialogue List - SCR-2374
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-360976
Small pressbook held.
view all - StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1672827
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1672828
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Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1672832
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1672834
view all - ArticlesTélérama n2939 13 May 2006 - ReviewEmpire n21 March 1991 - ReviewBlack Film Review v6 n3 1991 - ArticleMonthly Film Bulletin v58 n686 March 1991 - Credits, ReviewPremiere n165 December 1990 - Reviewview all
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