Raised in a Muslim family, Souleymane Cissé was a passionate cinephile from childhood and attended secondary school in Dakar, before returning to Mali in 1960 after national independence. His film career began as an assistant projectionist for a documentary on the arrest of Patrice Lumumba and in 1970 he returned to Mali once more, and joined the Ministry of Information as a cameraman, where he produced documentaries and short films. In 1972, he produced his first medium-length film, Cinq jours d’une vie and two years later he completed his first full-length film in the Bambara language, Den muso, the story of a young mute girl who had been raped, becomes pregnant, and is rejected both by her family and by the child’s father. Sadly Den Muso was banned by the Malian Minister of Culture, and Cissé was arrested and jailed for having accepted French funding.
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