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Mortu nega = Those whom death refused / Instituto Nacional de Cinema apresenta ; um filme de Flora Gomes ; [screenwriter, Flora Gomes and David Lang] ; producao, Jacques Zajdermann, Odette Rosa, Maria Cicilia Fonseca.
LIBRA VHS PN1995.9.A43 M678 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Library of African cinema.
- Library of African cinema
- Language:
- Creoles and Pidgins (Other)
- Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Droughts--Guinea-Bissau--Drama.
- Droughts.
- Famines--Guinea-Bissau--Drama.
- Famines.
- History.
- Guinea-Bissau.
- Guinea-Bissau--History--Revolution, 1963-1974--Drama.
- Genre:
- Motion pictures, African.
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (93 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Those whom death refused
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1998?]
- Language Note:
- Portuguese Crioulo with English sub-titles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- "In 1973, independence was proclaimed [in Guinea Bissau], ending five centuries of Portuguese colonization and a decade of armed struggle. [This film], Gomes' first feature-length film, portrays this critical period in history through the story of one woman, Diminga, whose husband is fighting on the front lines. The camera captures Cabral's assassination, the ending of hostilities, and the reconstruction of the economically and spiritually devastated country struggling with drought and famine. The term "Mortu Nega" means those that death did not want, and Gomes films a ceremony using 3000 extras, in which survivors call upon the dead, asking them how they can go on living in such terrible conditions."
- Participant:
- Bia Gomes, Eugenio Almada, Uri Mamadu Baldo, M'Male Nhasse, Pedro Da Silva.
- Credits:
- Editor, Christiane Lack.
- Notes:
- Videocassette release of a 1988 motion picture.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 40404592
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