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Sambizanga
1973 | Color | 98:00

The story of the persecution of Domingos, a member of the Angolan liberation movement who is arrested by the Portuguese secret police after a series of violent events and beaten to death in prison. Not knowing his fate, his wife searches for him in one precinct after another. Sambizanga is the name of the Luanda neighborhood where this Portuguese prison was located.


Country: Angola, Francia
Direction: Maldoror; Sarah
Script: De Andrade; Mario, Pons; Maurice, Maldoror; Sarah
Photography: Agostini; Claude
Sound: Steer; Guy
Cast:De Oliveira; Domingos, Andrade; Elisa, M’Vondo; Jean, Nelumba; Adelino, Moutsila; Benoît
Participation year at FICM: 2022

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