Maka Kotto Filmography

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Zim and Co.

Actors: Adrien Jolivet, Naidra Ayadi, Mhamed Arezki, Yannick Nasso, Nathalie Richard

Synopsis: A minor scooter accident turns into a comic nightmare for an aimless young man and his friends in Pierre Jolivet's Zim and Co. Victor Zimbietrovski, or Zim (Adrien Jolivet, the director's son), works hard, but not in any organized way. He plays guitar in a band, and he has a couple of odd jobs Read More

2005
A Silent Love

Actors: Vanessa Bauche, Noël Burton, Susana Salazar, Maka Kotto, Regina Orozco

Synopsis: A pair of e-mailing lovers discover romance is more difficult in the real world than in cyberspace, especially when a highly unexpected rivalry comes into the picture in this understated comedy drama. Norman (Noël Burton) is a middle-aged college professor from Montreal who, through an on-line Read More

10/29/04
How to Conquer America in One Night

Actors: Michel Mpambara, Maka Kotto, Sophie Faucher, Sonia Vachon, Widemir Normil

2004
Lumumba

Actors: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Moussa Théophile Sowie, Maka Kotto

Synopsis: Patrice Lumumba was a passionate advocate for freedom in colonial Africa, and when the Belgian Congo was granted independent (and was later renamed Zaire), Lumumba was the new nation's first prime minister. However, Lumumba's dream of freedom and dignity for the people of the Congo made him a Read More

6/27/01
La Ciel Sur La Tete

Actors: Arianne Maheu, Marc Messier, Celine Bonnier, Serge Dupire, David Boutin

2001
Une Pour Toutes

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Parillaud, Alessandra Martines, Marianne Denicourt, Alice Evans

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Claude Leloud directs this romantic comedy about a trio of femme fatale musketeers. In order to repay a stack of debts after a disastrous self-financed production of Chekhov's "Three Sisters," Olga (Anne Parillaud), Macha (Alice Evans), and Irina (Marianne Denicourt) hatch a Read More

2000
The Middle Passage

Actors: Maka Kotto

Synopsis: The ugly realities of the slave trade and the horrible toll it took upon the Africans who fell into its trap are explored in this drama. Filmed largely without dialogue, Passage Du Milieu follows a vessel filled with captured men, women, and children being shipped from Senegal to America. While Read More

2000
La Conciergerie

Actors: Serge Dupire, Macha Grenon, Jacques Godin, Monique Spaziani, Tania Kontoyanni

Synopsis: Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's Read More

1997
Beaumarchais L'Insolent

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain

Synopsis: This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The story begins in the 1770s with a rehearsal of his "The Barber of Seville." Young friend of Voltaire, Philipp Gudin introduces himself to the great Read More

1996
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Actors: Stephen Rea, Ling Chu, Adrian Brine, Maka Kotto, Mischa Aznavour

Synopsis: Two very different people become friends and partners in this nautical drama. Nikos (Stephen Rea) is a radio man working on a Greek freighter when he finds himself stranded in Hong Kong after the firm that owned his ship suddenly goes out of business. Nikos is already depressed over his recent Read More

1995
Taxi de Nuit

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Laure Marsac, Didier Bezace, Maka Kotto

Synopsis: It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and totalitarian regime. Women with children who want to divorce their husbands are not allowed to do so, all political parties have been outlawed, smoking is Read More

1993
Blanc d'ebene

Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maka Kotto, Marianne Basler, Tom Novembre

1991
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Roberta Bizeau, Maka Kotto, Myriam Cyr, Marie-Josée Gauthier

Synopsis: Set in the 1960s this comedy, based on the autobiographical novel of the same title by Haitian author Dany Laferriere this comedy centers on the sexploits of an aspiring African writer living in Montreal. When not clacking away on his novel (same as the title), he is out picking up white women Read More

1989
Perigord Noir

Actors: Roland Giraud, Jean Carmet, Odette Laure

Synopsis: The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her Read More

1988
Le Funiculaire des Anges

1987
Le Complexe du kangourou

Actors: Roland Giraud, Clémentine Célarié, Zabou, Stéphane Freiss, François Berléand

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, a young but sterile man suddenly wants to be a father. A friend calls this the "kangaroo complex," because male kangaroos do not have pouches to carry their offspring. So Loic (Roland Giraud, just out of his starring role in Trois Hommes et une Couffin later to be remade in Read More

1986