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F.V.V.A. - Femmes Voitures Villas Argent is a 1972 drama film directed by Moustapha Alassane.

F.V.V.A. - Femmes Voitures Villas Argent
Directed by	Moustapha Alassane
Written by	Moustapha Alassane
Starring	Zingare Abdoulaye Sawadogo Bintou Sotigui Kouyaté Djingareye Maiga Zalika Souley
Music by	Kuyaté Sotigui, Ensemble Super-Volta
Distributed by	Marfilmes
Release date	1972 (1972)
Running time	62 minutes
Country	Niger
Language	French

Synopsis

Ali is a modest civil servant who enjoys a pleasant life in town. One day, upon being forced by his parents to marry a woman he doesn't want, Ali is dragged into a vortex composed by "Women (Femmes), Cars (Voitures), Villas, Money (Argent)" all of which, in Niger, stand for social success. Longing for an increasingly luxurious way of life, in order to support habits he himself created, Ali is forced to steal and is arrested. When everyone else abandons him, his first wife reveals her loyalty and awaits his release. The film depicts the frantic search for consumer goods by the low middle classes of the African cities and it was, according to Véronique Cayla, director of the Centre national de la Cinématographie (France), of remarking importance for the youngsters back in those years.[1]

Festivals

• Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands (2010)

Awards

• Prize OCAM at FESPACO - Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougo, Burkina Faso (1972)

See also

• Moustapha Alassane

External links

• F.V.V.A. - Femmes Voitures Villas Argent - IMDb page about F.V.V.A. - Femmes Voitures Villas Argent
• Article at Hollywood.com at archive.today (archived 2013-01-25)

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