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Summary
Mali's Music defines the country's cultural identity. Radical Islamists are threatening the musicians. Together with the stars of Malian Global Pop - Fatoumata Diawara, Bassekou Kouyaté Master Soumy and Ahmed Ag Kaedi - we embark on a musical journey to Mali's agitated heart. Can their music reconcile the country?
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Critics vs audiences
Critics and audiences agree
Critics 87Audiences 84GoodWatch 71
Tomatometer89%
Metascore85
Audience score96%
IMDb7.2
Running time
1 h 30 min
A typical length for documentaries, −6 min on the typical 96
typical 9690Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 5 countries
Released
2016
September 29, 2016
10 years ago
Genres
DocumentaryMusicLanguage
German
Original language
Made in
- Germany
Mali
Directing · 2
- Lutz Gregor Director, Writer
- Mory Touré Assistant Director
Production · 3
- Kerstin Meyer-Beetz Executive Producer
- Christian Beetz Producer
- Kathrin Isberner Line Producer
Camera · 4
- Axel Schneppat Director of Photography
- Abdellah Coulibaly Director of Photography
- Konrad Waldmann Director of Photography
- Dieter Stürmer Director of Photography
Editing · 2
- Michèle Barbin Editor
- Markus Schmidt Editor
Sound · 1
- Daniel Piechotka Sound Designer
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