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 "id": "screen/khala-1975",
 "class": "screen",
 "slug": "khala-1975",
 "label": {
  "en": "Xala",
  "ar": "خالا"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "فيلم عثمان صمبين عن تاجر داكاري يصاب بـ«الخالا» (العجز) في زواجه الثالث؛ سخرية من النخبة ما بعد الاستعمار.",
  "en": "Xala."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "local-islams-and-syncretism",
  "humour-and-everyday-life",
  "tradition-versus-culture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "format": "film",
  "relevance": "substantial",
  "titles": [
   {
    "lang": "en",
    "value": "Xala",
    "kind": "release"
   }
  ],
  "released": {
   "edtf": "1975",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "countries": [
   "sn"
  ],
  "languages": {
   "original": [
    "wo",
    "fr"
   ]
  },
  "depiction": {
   "prophet": "not-applicable",
   "companions": "not-applicable",
   "imams": "not-applicable"
  },
  "approach": "comedy",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q1538018",
   "imdb": "tt0073915"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/imdb"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), screen-index lane; existence, year and identifiers verified against Wikidata and IMDb, 2026-10-16"
  },
  "reception": []
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "فيلم عثمان صمبين عن تاجر داكاري يصاب بـ«الخالا» (العجز) في زواجه الثالث؛ سخرية من النخبة ما بعد الاستعمار. {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/khala-1975",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A film by Ousmane Sembène about a Dakarian merchant who suffers impotence ('khala') on his third marriage; a satire of the post-colonial elite. {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/khala-1975",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "عثمان سمبین کی فلم جو ایک داکاری تاجر کے بارے میں ہے جسے اس کی تیسری شادی میں «خالا» (نامردی) لاحق ہو جاتی ہے؛ نوآبادیاتی بعد کی اشرافیہ کا مذاق۔ {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/khala-1975",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/sacred-livestock-jahiliyya",
  "screen/al-marmuluk-2004",
  "screen/al-qiddis-al-majhul-2019",
  "screen/baraka-yuqaabil-baraka-2016",
  "screen/muladi-2004",
  "concept/abjad-kings-etymology",
  "concept/anwa",
  "concept/asma-al-ayyam-wal-shuhur-jahiliyya"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}