Original Title: Le Prix de la Liberté
Cameroon, 1978
color 93'  
 
 

After refusing the sexual advances of her village chief and her father’s authority, a young woman runs away from home and goes to town. There she meets several members of her family and tries to start her life from scratch. She enrolls at a high school and makes new friends.
However, she realizes that social relations in town also depend on sexual favors and that around her everyone has given in to that practice. When she loses the only man she loved, the girl returns to her village and in a fit of rage sets it on fire.

Restored master from the original negative.

Language: French

Cast
Marie-Thérèse Badje, Bibi Kouo, Marthe Momha, Albert Mouangue, Madeleine Ndoum

Director: Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa

Production Company: Cameroun Spectacles

Versions: Original Version and with English Subtitles

Availability: Please contact TRIGON FILM - Walter Ruggle [info@trigon-film.org] - www.trigon-film.org
 
   
Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa (1940-, Cameroon)
Born in 1940 at Douala, Cameroon. He became a filmmaker through theater, studied at the Cinema Conservatory in Paris. After three short-feature films (1965-1966), he directed feature-films like “Muna Moto” (1975) - which made him famous - and “Le prix de la Liberté” (1978), thus bringing Cameroon Cinema to international audiences. An author, playwriter and theater producer, Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa directed and acted in about 30 plays during his life-long career.

Filmography

La Foire aux livres à Hararé, 1984
Histoires drôles et drôles de gens, 1983
Music and Music: Super Concert, 1981
Kpa Kum, 1980
Le Prix de la liberté, 1978
Muna Moto, 1975
Rendez-vous moi mon père, 1966
Les Cornes, 1966
Un simple, 1965		  
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