Soleil O information

Soleil Ô
Soleil Ô
	Film poster
Directed by	Med Hondo
Written by	Med Hondo
Starring	Robert Liensol; Théo Légitimus
Cinematography	François Catonné; Jean-Claude Rahaga
Edited by	Michèle Masnier; Clément Menuet
Music by	George Anderson
Production; companies	Grey Films; Shango Films
Distributed by	USA: New Yorker Films
Release dates	May 1970 (Cannes); 4 January 1973 (France);
Running time	98 minutes
Countries	Mauritania; France
Languages	French; Hassaniya Arabic
Budget	$30,000

Soleil Ô ([sɔ.lɛj o]; "Oh, Sun") is a 1970^[3] 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.

^ "Soleil O > Production credits". AllMovie. Retrieved 26 August 2009.
^ Reid, Mark; Blum, Sylvie (31 March 1986). "Med Hondo, interview Working abroad". Jump Cut. Retrieved 24 August 2009.
^ Genova, James (2013). Cinema and Development in West Africa. Indiana University Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-253-01011-7. Retrieved 29 February 2020. [Soleil Ô] was copyrighted in 1967, but filming was not completed until 1969; the movie was first screened in 1970 during the international critics' week in Cannes.

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