Soleil O

Soleil Ô
Film poster
Directed byMed Hondo
Written byMed Hondo
StarringRobert Liensol
Théo Légitimus
CinematographyFrançois Catonné
Jean-Claude Rahaga
Edited byMichèle Masnier
Clément Menuet
Music byGeorge Anderson
Production
companies
Grey Films
Shango Films
Distributed byUSA: New Yorker Films
Release dates
  • May 1970 (1970-05) (Cannes)
  • 4 January 1973 (1973-01-04) (France)
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesMauritania
France
LanguagesFrench
Hassaniya Arabic
Budget$30,000

Soleil Ô ([sɔ.lɛj o]; "Oh, Sun") is a 1970 French-Mauritanian drama film written and directed by Med Hondo.

The title refers to a West Indian song that tells of the pain of the black people from Dahomey (now Benin) who were taken to the Caribbean as slaves.

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