Concerning politics and soccer.

Outside a ministry building in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, a young man sells audio tapes, magazines, old sports newspapers and football souvenirs. He's known as "Mister Foot".
Everyday at the same time, he plays a tape of an old football match of the Cameroonian national team. People crowd around the stand and civil servants lean out of their office windows to listen-all reminiscing the glory days of Cameroonian football.

One day Mister Foot helps a young man who has been following him. And so he's introduced to the blurry and complex world of Cameroonian football, a few months after the country's astonishing performance at the 1990 World Cup Tournament in Italy.

A film by Jean-Marie TENO

Cameroon / France, 1991, documentary, 20 mins, Video & 16 mm.

With : Marcellin Mondo, François-Xavier Ndongnou, Atangana Messi

Original Title (in French): Mister Foot,
English Title: Mister Foot,
Countries: Cameroon / France
Duration: 20 min
Year: 1985
Type: Documentary
Format: 16 mm & Video

Director: Jean Marie Teno
Written by Jean Marie Teno
Camera : Bonaventure Takoukam
Sound : Vincent Ndoumbé
Assistants : Vincent Ndoumbé
Florence Ayissi Editor : Chantal Rogeon

Contact:
Les Films du Raphia, France

Broadcast Canal + and Channel Four.


Selection - International Film Festival Rotterdam 1992