Sambizanga

Name: Sambizanga
Genre: Drama
Released: 1973-04-26
Duration: 102 min
Cast: Domingos de Oliveira, Dino Abelino, Manuel Videira, Elisa Andrade, Jean M'Vondo

Rating

No ratings yet

Release Date

4/26/1973

Runtime

102 mins

Genres

Drama

Overview

Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is.

Status

Released

Original Language

Lingala

Budget

Revenue

Homepage

How It Feels

Read from this film's synopsis, keywords and credits, and used to work out what it sits beside.

A stark, urgent portrait of state brutality and personal anguish, a woman's desperate search for her arrested husband becomes a devastating indictment of colonial oppression. Watching it is witnessing both intimate heartbreak and political rage crystallized into cinema.