Natal 71

Natal 71 (1999)

DocumentaryHistory

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.

Director: Margarida Cardoso

Casts

	Rogério Samora as narrator (voice)
	Adelino Cardoso as himself
	Manuel Carlos Pinto as himself
	Luís Alcobia as himself
	Hermínia Silva as herself
	Cilinha as herself
	Florbela Queirós as herself
	Francisco Nicholson as himself
	João Maria Pinto as himself

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