• Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, SODAPERAGA

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    1996

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV

The film proposes a exciting inquiry into one of Africa's most mysterious ethnic groups.

For more than sixty years, the Dogon, a Malian ethnic group settled in the Bandiagara cliff region since the 15th century, have fascinated Western ethnologists. Marcel Griaule, who died in 1956, was the first, as of 1931, to systematically research the Dogons. He was followed by Germaine Dieterlen and Jean Rouch. The film retraces the story of their research, and proposes a exciting inquiry into one of Africa's most mysterious ethnic groups.