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.
- Sarah Maldoror
- Mário Pinto de Andrade
- Sarah Maldoror
- Luandino Vieira
- Serge Michel
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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