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Natal 71 (1999)

Natal 71 (1999)

History Documentary

Memories of a fascist dictatorship, memories of a country closed to the world.

Release Date: 1999, January 1
Directors: Margarida Cardoso
Countries: Portugal
Production: Filmes do Tejo, Lapsus, Lapsus, Periscope Productions, Periscope Productions
Cast: Rogério Samora, João Maria Pinto, Francisco Nicholson, Adelino Cardoso, Manuel Carlos Pinto, Luís Alcobia, Hermínia Silva, Cilinha, Florbela Queirós

Overview:

Natal 71 is the name of a record given to the soldiers of the portuguese colonies overseas for Christmas 1971. Niassa's Songbook is the title of an audiotape illegally recorded by soldiers during the war years, in Mozambique. They are memories from a country which was shut from the rest of the world, poor and ignorant, laid to sleep by a stale and primitive propaganda which tried to hide all the conflicts from us and kept us from thinking and recognising the repressive nature of the regime we lived in.