Producer : Les Films du Horla
France 3 Limousin Poitou Charentes
Scriptwriter-Director : Patrick CAZALS
Camera : Jacques MALNOU
René LARTIGAUD Editing : Marie-Agnès BLUM Sound : Pierre SAUNIER
Film available in Beta SP
RENE CAILLIE, BOOK OF SANDS
Synopsis: This film relates René Caillié’s journey. A child from Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, a small village of the Deux-Sèvres, who learned the language of the Moors in Sénégal in 1824 before going to Timbuktoo that he would reach in 1828 and come back unharmed.
He was the first europeen to succeed such feat. It deals with tone of the amoziest human adventure of the nineteenth century.
This film is based on the Journal de Voyage-Journal des Sables, written by René Caillié and beautiful landscapes filmed from Djenné to Timbuktoo. With evidence given by Michel Bossuet, René Caillié’s biographer, Alain Quella-Villéger, author of the book René Caillié, a life for Timbuktoo, Bernard Slavaing, headmaster of the Africain Studies at the Sorbonne University, Ali Ould Sidi, leader of the Cultural mission in Timbuktoo.
