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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Rogério Samoranarrator (voice)
Hermínia Silvaherself
Florbela Queirósherself
Francisco Nicholsonhimself
João Maria PintohimselfExplore the crew
- Editor
- Anne Brotons
- Editor
- Pedro Ribeiro
- Producer
- François d'Artemare
- Producer
- Maria João Mayer
- Director of Photography
- Lisa Hagstrand
- Director
- Margarida Cardoso
- Writer
- Margarida Cardoso