Natal 71

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.

Cast

Rogério Samora

narrator (voice)

Adelino Cardoso

himself

Manuel Carlos Pinto

himself

Luís Alcobia

himself

Hermínia Silva

herself

Cilinha

herself

Florbela Queirós

herself

Francisco Nicholson

himself

João Maria Pinto

himself