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Chocolat

Where:

🇨🇲 Cameroon

When:

The 1950s

Denis's semi-autobiographical film debut. — A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protée—a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty—and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.

Released in 1988 — 105 minutes

Genre:

Drama

Languages:

English French Hausa