Sambizanga

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Sambizanga

1973

1h 37m

Drama

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A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.

Nora Sayre

New York Times

04/04/2011

4/5

Let's hope that this impressive new director makes many sequels to her first feature film.

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Daniel Barnes

Dare Daniel

Oct 29

3.5/5

Set during the early days of the Angolan War for Independence, Sambizanga is a gripping political statement in the style of The Battle of Algiers.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

03/04/2024

It’s a simple, powerful narrative about an Angolan construction worker whose covert political activism results in brutal retribution from Portuguese colonialist authorities.

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Raquel Stecher

Out of the Past

05/08/2023

poignant story... Sambizanga offers a straightforward story of familial strife and incarceration as a platform to further explore the nuances of inequality,

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Yasmine Seale

4Columns

01/07/2022

Sambizanga is about the hardest things, but it leaves a gentle, almost honeyed flavor in its wake. Its slyest move is to show political abstractions entangled in material life...Poetics of relation are not theorized but brightly lived.

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Sarah Manvel

Kamera.co.uk

10/31/2021

As with the observational style of filmmaking that burst onto the scene with Easy Rider and others in the west, Sambizanga believes that paying attention is a radical act.

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Synopsis

A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.

Director: Sarah Maldoror
Screenwriter: Mário de Andrade, Sarah Maldoror, Maurice Pons, Luandino Vieira
Distributor: New Yorker Films
Production Co: Isabelle Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Lingala
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 1, 1973, Original
Runtime: 1h 37m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: 35mm