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Natal 71 (1999)

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

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.

Release: 1999-01-01
Runtime: 52 min
Rating: 6 / 10
Cast
Rogério Samora
Rogério Samora
narrator (voice)
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Adelino Cardoso
himself
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Manuel Carlos Pinto
himself
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Luís Alcobia
himself
Hermínia Silva
Hermínia Silva
herself
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Cilinha
herself
Florbela Queirós
Florbela Queirós
herself
Francisco Nicholson
Francisco Nicholson
himself
João Maria Pinto
João Maria Pinto
himself