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The Wagoner
SENEGAL · 1963

The Wagoner

Ousmane Sembène
poverty urban migration compassion self-sacrifice class struggle
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Synopsis

A cart-taxi driver goes to the city to make a living, but out of sympathy with other poverty-stricken people, he works for free and goes hungry himself.

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