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Monangambeee (1968)
Directed by Sarah Maldoror
Drama · 18m
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.
Cast
Elisa Andrade
Mohamed Zinet
Crew
- Director
- Sarah Maldoror
- Writer
- Mário Pinto de Andrade, Sarah Maldoror, Serge Michel
- Director of Photography
- Abdelkader Adel
Details
- Original title
- Monangambé
- Release date
- 1968-01-01
- Runtime
- 18m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Angola, Algeria