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Natal 71 (1999)

Name: Natal 71
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 1999
Duration: 52 min

Directed by Margarida Cardoso

“Memories of a fascist dictatorship, memories of a country closed to the world.”

Documentary, History · 52m

Natal 71 is the name of a record given to the soldiers of the portuguese colonies overseas for Christmas 1971. Niassa's Songbook is the title of an audiotape illegally recorded by soldiers during the war years, in Mozambique. They are memories from a country which was shut from the rest of the world, poor and ignorant, laid to sleep by a stale and primitive propaganda which tried to hide all the conflicts from us and kept us from thinking and recognising the repressive nature of the regime we lived in.