Watch Streaming Monangambeee (1968) : Movie 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. | ||
| Release Date | : | Jan 01, 1968 |
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| Genres | : | Drama |
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| Production Countries | : | Angola |
| Casts | : | Mohamed Zinet, Carlos Pestana, Elisa Andrade |
| Plot Keywords | : | woman director, anti-colonialism, short film, panafricanism |
