Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It

Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It

75 mins | Drama, Romance, Music | April 17, 2015

Prince goes Sahel in this colorful homage to Purple Rain. Set among the sub-Saharan Tuareg people, and reputedly the first feature film in their Tamashek language (which has no word for "purple," hence the title). Resplendent in a purple robe and matching chopper, smoking hot guitarist Mdou Moctar arrives in a music-mad Niger town and sets about wooing a local beauty, clashing with his pious father, and fencing with the jealous king of the local scene (Kader Tanoutanoute, as wily and dapper as Morris Day) until their climactic six-string shootout.

Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It

75 mins | Drama, Romance, Music | April 17, 2015

Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It
Prince goes Sahel in this colorful homage to Purple Rain. Set among the sub-Saharan Tuareg people, and reputedly the first feature film in their Tamashek language (which has no word for "purple," hence the title). Resplendent in a purple robe and matching chopper, smoking hot guitarist Mdou Moctar arrives in a music-mad Niger town and sets about wooing a local beauty, clashing with his pious father, and fencing with the jealous king of the local scene (Kader Tanoutanoute, as wily and dapper as Morris Day) until their climactic six-string shootout.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Sahel Sounds, L'improbable, Tenere Films
Original title Akounak tedalat taha tazoughai
Directors Christopher Kirkley
Writers Christopher Kirkley

Cast

Mdou Moctar

as Mdou Moctar

Rhaicha Ibrahim

as Rhaicha

Fatimata Falo

as Mother

Ahmoudou Madassane

as Ahmoudou