Wend Kuuni

Infobox Film
name = Wend Kuuni


image_size =
caption =
director = Gaston Kaboré
producer =
writer = Gaston KaboréCitation
last = Canby
first = Vincent
author-link = Vincent Canby
title = Wend Kuuni
newspaper = New York Times
date = 1983-03-27
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507EFDA103BF934A15750C0A965948260
accessdate =2008-01-17]
narrator =
starring =
music = Rene B. Guirma
cinematography =
editing = Andree Davanture
distributor = California Newsreel (USA)
released = March 27 1983 (USA)
runtime = 75 mins.
country = Burkina Faso
language = More
budget =
gross =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:151893
imdb_id = 0084898

"Wend Kuuni" (also known as "God's Gift") is a 1982 Burkinabé drama film directed by Gaston Kaboré.

Plot

The movie starts out with a village leader coming into the house of a crying mother. He says to give up hope that your husband is still alive. Resisting from the comments, the mother decides to runaway with her child.

The scene then changes and focuses on a traveler finding a body of a dehydrated young boy on the ground. The traveler tries to speak to the boy, but he his mute and doesn't remember a thing. He then picks him up and rides to the nearest village, which happens to be a Mossi village. The village leader comes and says that he is not from this village, but will raise him. The traveller thanks them and heads off.

At the village market, an auction was raised to see who gets the boy. The family who won him named him Wend Kuuni, which meant God's Gift.

At the house, Wend Kuuni had the job of herding the goats. He made friends with his stepsister and was very happy living in this household.

During one of his goat herding trips, Wend Kuuni left his knife beside a tree and when he came back, he found his mother hanged onto a branch and screamed "Mother!" He got home that evening with his family saying, "What took you so long?" Wend Kuuni talked to them that he found his mother hanged on a tree. They gasped and sent a search party to look for his mother.

last = Blaise
first = Judd
title = Wend Kuuni Plot Synopsis
publisher = Allmovie
url = http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:151893~T0
accessdate =2008-01-17 ] [cite web
title = Wend Kuuni
publisher = California Newsreel
url = http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0105
accessdate =2008-01-17 ]

Cast

*Serge Yanogo as Wendkouni
*Rosine Yanogo as Pognere
*Joseph Nikiema as Tinga
*Colette Kaboré as Lale
*Simone Tapsoba as Koudbila
*Yaya Wima as Bila
*Martine Ouedraogo as Timpoko
*Boucare Ouedraogo as Razougou

Awards

In 1985, "Wend Kuuni" won the César award for best French language film and in 1986 it won the Distribution Help Award at the Fribourg International Film Festival.

References

External links

*imdb title|0084898
* [http://newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0105 Official site at California Newsreel]