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Rating: 6.8/10 by 5 users

Monangambeee (1968)

Filmmaker-griot coming from the theater, it was with a camera, while the war in Vietnam occupied everyone's minds, that Sarah Maldoror gave visibility to the African wars of decolonization: Angola, Guinea Bissau, French Guinea, Cape Verde... Her short film Monangambée addresses the torture by the Portuguese army of a sympathizer of the Angolan resistance. At the end of editing, Sarah Maldoror approached the members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago during a Parisian concert and offered to add sound to her film. The next day they watched the film, were convinced and recorded their first soundtrack for free as evidence of African-American solidarity. Shot in Algiers, Monangambée is a film about torture and, more broadly, about the incomprehension between the colonized and the colonizers. It is based on a novel by the Angolan writer Luandino Vieira, then imprisoned by the Portuguese colonial power.

Directing:
  • Sarah Maldoror
Writing:
  • Mário Pinto de Andrade
  • Sarah Maldoror
  • Luandino Vieira
  • Serge Michel
Stars:
Release Date: Mon, Jan 01, 1968

Rating: 6.8/10 by 5 users

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Country:
Angola
Language:
Français
Runtime: 00 hour 18 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0

Plot Keyword: woman director, anti-colonialism, short film, panafricanism
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