#1143: MALDOROR, Sarah: Sambizanga (1972)
MALDOROR, Sarah (Angola)
Sambizanga [1972]
Director/Writers
Sambizanga [1972]
Spine #1143
Blu-ray
A bombshell by the first woman to direct a film in Africa, Sarah Maldoror’s chronicle of the awakening of Angola’s independence movement is a stirring hymn to those who risk everything in the fight for freedom. Based on a true story, Sambizanga follows a young woman (Elisa Andrade) as she makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city’s center looking for her husband (Domingos Oliveira) after his arrest by the Portuguese authorities—an incident that ultimately helps to ignite an uprising. Scored by the language of revolution and the spiritual songs of the colonized Angolan people, and featuring a cast of nonprofessional actors—many of whom were themselves involved in anticolonial resistance—this landmark work of political cinema honors the essential roles of women, as well as the hardships they endure, in the global struggle for liberation.
97 minutes
Color
Monaural
in Portuguese, Lingala, and Kimbundu
1:37:1
Criterion Release 2022
Color
Monaural
in Portuguese, Lingala, and Kimbundu
1:37:1
Criterion Release 2022
Based on the novel The Real Life of Domingus Xavier by Luandino Vieira.
Adaptation, screenplay and dialogue by Maurice Pons and Mário de Andrade.
Sarah Maldoror was 63 when she directed Sambizanga.
Adaptation, screenplay and dialogue by Maurice Pons and Mário de Andrade.
Sarah Maldoror was 63 when she directed Sambizanga.
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Seventy-six page booklet featuring an essay by Yasmina Price.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese.
Program 1
Featuring Sambizanga director Maldoror and Annouhcka de Andrade, Maldoror’s daughter.
Extras Rating (0-40):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Seventy-six page booklet featuring an essay by Yasmina Price.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese.
Program 1
Featuring Sambizanga director Maldoror and Annouhcka de Andrade, Maldoror’s daughter.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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