Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project
Subtitle: Touki bouki : Redes / S.E.P.B.A. Mexico presenta ; autores, Agustin Velazquez Chavez, Paul Strand ; adaptador, H. Rodakiewikz ; directores, Emilio Gómez Muriel, Fred Zinnemann
By: une production Cinegrit ; produit et réalisé par Djibril Diop Mambéty,
Contributors: Zinnemann, Fred, 1907-1997, director; Gómez Muriel, Emilio, director; Velásquez Chávez, Agustín, screenwriter; Strand, Paul, 1890-1976, screenwriter; Niang, Magaye, actor; Niang, Mareme, actor; Fall, Aminata, 1942-2002, actor; Hernández, Silvio (Hernández del Valle), actor; Lara, Antonio, actor; Figueroa, Miguel, actor; Hinojosa, Rafael, actor; Rojas, Felipe, actor; Gonzalez, David Valle, actor; Cobos, Susana Ortiz, actor; Revueltas, Silvestre, 1899-1940, composer; Scorsese, Martin; Sissako, Abderrahmane; Jones, Kent, 1964-; Cinegrit (Firm); Mexico. Secretaría de Educación Pública. Departamento de Bellas Artes; World Cinema Project; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Dual-format ed., Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special ed.
Series: The Criterion collection -- 685, 686; Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) -- 685.; Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) -- 686.; Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) -- 685.; Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) -- 686.
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York]
Language: wol
Format: [videorecording]. /
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781604658132; 9781604658149
Subjects: Drama; Fishers; Man-woman relationships; Criminals
Other titles: Touki bouki; Redes; Journey of the hyena; Wave; Redes (Motion picture)
Description: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.

Redes: "This vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real-life fishermen), one worker's terrible loss instigates a political awakening among him and his fellow laborers"--Container.
Notes: The single Blu-ray disc and the set of two DVDs each contains the World Cinema Project's 2K digitally-restored versions of the feature films Touki bouki (89 min.) and Redes (59 min.) and a collection of special features.

Title from container.

Touki bouki: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973.

Redes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936.

Special features on Blu-ray disc and the two DVDs include new introductions to the films by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese, a new interview with filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako about Touki bouki, and a new visual essay on Redes by filmmaker and writer Kent Jones.

Touki bouki: Director of photography, George Bracher ; editor, Siro Asteni.

Redes: Producer, Secretaría de Educatión Pública, Mexico City ; written by Augustín Velásquez Chávez, Paul Strand ; cinematographer, Paul Strand ; editors, Gunther von Fritsch, Emilio Gómez Muriel ; composer, Silvestre Revueltas.

Touki bouki: Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, , Christoph Colomb, Moustapha Toure, Aminata Fall, Ousseuynou Diop.

Redes: Silvio Hernández [del Valle], Antonio Lara, Miguel Figueroa, Rafael Hinojosa, Felipe Rojas, David Valle González, Susana Ortiz Cobos, and the fishermen and neighbors of Alvarado.

Blu-ray, region A; full screen (1.37:1 or 1.33:1) presentations; uncompressed monaural; requires Blu-ray player.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.37:1 or 1.33:1) presentations; monaural.

Touki bouki: In Wolof with optional English subtitles.

Redes: In Spanish with optional English subtitles.