Monangambeee (1968)

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.

Released Jan. 1, 1968 18 min None+

Genres: Drama, Short

Keywords: tmdb.woman-director, tmdb.short-film, mdblist.imdb-short, mdblist.three-actors, tmdb.anti-colonialism, tmdb.panafricanism, aspectratio.1-33-1

Country: Angola
Production Country: Angola
Languages: French