Djingarey Maïga

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Djingarey Alhassane Maïga (* 17th October 1939 in Ouattagouna ; spelling of the first name also Djingareye and Guingarey ) is a Nigerien film director and actor .

Life

Djingarey Maïga moved to Niamey , the capital of Niger , after attending school . There he found work as an electricity reader for the energy company SAFELEC, which later became Compagnie Nigérienne d'Electricité (NIGELEC). His interest in cinema awoke in the early 1960s during the pioneering days of Nigerien film . Directed by Moustapha Alassane , he played the leading role in the western Le retour d'un aventurier (1966). Alassane also engaged him as an actor for his feature film FVVA: Femme, voiture, villa, argent (1972). Maïga gave up his job as electricity reader in 1971 to initially work for Moustapha Alassane as an assistant director.

His first directorial work was Le ballon in 1972, in which his eldest son, who was then six, played the leading role. In the decades that followed, Maïga remained active as a film director. His first feature film L'étoile noire (1976), for which he hired Moustapha Alassane and Damouré Zika as actors, is a man's love triangle between a western and a traditional woman. Several of his films are linked in terms of content as série noire ("black series"). The black that these films have in their titles represents grief and misery in Africa .

Filmography

Director
  • 1972: Le ballon
  • 1976: L'étoile noire
  • 1978: Ouatagouna
  • 1979: Autour de l'hippopotame
  • 1979: Nuages ​​noirs
  • 1980: Les rendez-vous du 15 avril
  • 1982: La danse des dieux
  • 1983: Aube noire
  • 1994: Miroir noir
  • 1999: Vendredi noir
  • 2009: La quatrième nuit noire
  • 2014: Au plus loin dans le noir
actor
  • 1966: Le retour d'un aventurier
  • 1969: Cabascabo
  • 1972: FVVA: Femme, villa, voiture, argent
  • 1976: L'étoile noire
  • 1986: Le médecin de Gafire
camera operator
  • 2002: Le rêve plus fort que la mort

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Biography of Djingarey Maïga. In: Africultures. Retrieved October 27, 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ Tahar Cheriaa: Les cinémas d'Afrique. Dictionnaire . Karthala, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84586-060-9 , pp. 309 .
  3. ↑ Espera Donouvossi: Vendredi noir, de Djingarey Maiga (Niger). Entre pauvreté et malheur, le Niger vit au quotidien. In: Africiné. July 9, 2008, accessed October 27, 2015 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Maïga, Djingarey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maïga, Djingarey Alhassane (full name); Maïga, Djingareye Alhassane; Maïga, Guingarey Alhassane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien film director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ouattagouna