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N - THE MADNESS OF REASON

By Peter KRÜGER

WIDE - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2014

A magical film on the confrontation between the Western mind and African spirituality.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2014

Forum

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Languages
- FRENCH, BAMBARA
- Duration
- 102 mn
- Director(s)
- Peter KRÜGER
- Cast
- Hamadoum KASSOGUE, Vieux Farka TOURE, Wendyam SAWADOGO
- Producer(s)
- Cobra Films , Dieptescherpte , Inti Films
- Synopsis
- N is a story of an unusual obsession. N recounts the story of the Frenchman Raymond Borremans, who left Europe for Africa in the mid-20th century. He devoted his life to the creation of the first encyclopaedia of this other world, dreaming of eternal recognition. He died, however, having only reached the letter N. With his encyclopaedia incomplete, his restless spirit drifts around West Africa, caught between life and death, past and present. Why has he returned to the living? An African woman who helps restless spirits find peace, tries to lead him towards his destiny. When confronted with civil war, he is shattered. His encyclopaedic mind – bent on drawing borders, on definitions and categorizations – finds the contingencies of reality less easy to cope with. This is the story of how he tries to complete his unfinished task from beyond death.