Movie

Monangambeee

★ 6.8(8)196818m

Drama

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Director: Sarah Maldoror
Release date: 1968-01-01
Runtime: 18m
Language: French
Status: Released
Country: Angola

About Monangambeee

Monangambeee is a 1968 movie in the Drama genre, directed by Sarah Maldoror, starring Elisa Andrade, Carlos Pestana and Mohamed Zinet. It has a runtime of 18 minutes. It holds an average rating of 6.8/10 from 8 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Monangambeee in United States — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

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.