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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 DVD 004 241
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Droughts--Guinea-Bissau--Drama.
- Droughts.
- Famines--Guinea-Bissau--Drama.
- Famines.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Guinea-Bissau--History--Revolution, 1963-1974--Drama.
- Guinea-Bissau.
- Guinea-Bissau--Social conditions--Drama.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, African.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Those whom death refused
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, [between 2000 and 2009]
- Language Note:
- In Criolo with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- 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"--Le monde Cannes, '96 supplement, May 10.
- Participant:
- Bia Gomes, Eugenio Almada, Uri Mamadu Baldo, M'Male Nhasse, Pedro Da Silva.
- Credits:
- Editor, Christiane Lack.
- Notes:
- DVD release of the 1988 motion picture.
- Title from container and disc label.
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license. Resource Sharing not permitted.
- OCLC:
- 180941991
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