Monangambeee (1968)
• January 1st, 1968 • 0h 18min
Drama
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Yellow Island
Released on: 2016-01-24
Drama
11-year-old Ena meets a young fisherman in a port. He gives her an eel and they arrange to meet the ...
Der Zauber des Regenbogens
Released on: 2007-11-09
TV Movie, Drama, Romance
A very skilful young architect from Berlin, Lea Winter, who has a promising career, is pregnant with...
Whale Rider
Released on: 2003-01-30
Drama, Family
A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a desti...
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Released on: 2003-06-29
Documentary, Drama
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
The Miracle Worker
Released on: 2000-11-12
Drama, TV Movie
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps inte...
Frida
Released on: 2002-08-29
Drama, Romance
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous ...
Antonia's Line
Released on: 1995-09-21
Drama, Comedy
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
America
Released on:
Drama
The life of a Romanian Orthodox Priest, who went from a hard childhood in godless, communist Romania...
Finding My Gundam
Released on: 2013-05-31
Drama
Hyun-dong is a hikikomori. He lives off of the joy of assembling and displaying Gundams in his only ...
Finnegan Begin Again
Released on: 1985-02-24
Comedy, Drama, Romance, TV Movie
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drift...
Channel Incident
Released on: 1940-04-28
Drama
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to j...
Mario, Kike and David
Released on: 2016-10-27
Drama, Romance
Mario and Kike hook up on a dating app. What initially was never meant to be more than a sex date wi...
Bird
Released on: 2017-09-09
Drama
When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's...
I Am Here
Released on: 2016-04-28
Drama, Mystery
A young man, looking to start his life over moves into a new neighborhood. In his new home, he disco...
Abigail
Released on: 2021-03-31
Drama
A lonely and elderly widower struggles to come to terms with the loss of his wife and the circumstan...
Capture the Heart of That Day
Released on: 2019-10-23
Animation, Drama, Science Fiction
It's the year 20XX, and the latest technologies are protecting the nature of rural towns. The main c...