Watch Monangambeee (1968) Online

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... His 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, in the process, recorded their first soundtrack. 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. Read More

Watch Monangambeee online. Featuring Mohamed Zinet and Carlos Pestana, Monangambeee is classified as Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6.8. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Angola and was released on 1968. Monangambeee was directed by Sarah Maldoror. Read Less