African Film Archive

FVVA: Femme, Villa, Voiture, Argent

1972 — Moustapha Alassane — Niger

feature · drama, satire · manifesto

A modest civil servant abandons his traditional wife for a city girl's demands for women, cars, villas, and money in Moustapha Alassane's moral satire on the new wealth culture of post-independence Niger, which ends with him imprisoned for embezzlement.

Fun fact: The film's title spells out the four symbols of social success it satirizes, an acronym still referenced in discussions of Alassane's social critique.

Notes: Runtime 62 minutes; also listed under the title Women Cars Villas Money.

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Poster source: La Cinematheque francaise