Richard de Medeiros

Richard de Medeiros was born in September 1937 in Ouidah. He studied literature in Cotonou and then in Paris, and taught literature, as a specialist in surrealism, at the University of Dahomey, which became the National University of Benin. Before this film, he had made two documentaries, one of them while he was teaching at the Institute of Journalism in Algiers, and a fiction short film. He founded a film club and a cultural magazine, and died in Nanterre on 4 August 2017.

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• CinemaLe Nouveau VenuRichard de Medeiros · 1976Cinema