Monangambeee
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.
Year: 1968
Genre: Drama
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Director: Sarah Maldoror
Cast: Elisa Andrade, Carlos Pestana, Mohamed Zinet
Crew: Mário Pinto de Andrade (Writer), Sarah Maldoror (Director), Sarah Maldoror (Writer), Luandino Vieira (Story), Serge Michel (Writer), Abdelkader Adel (Director of Photography)
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