Natal 71

Documentary · 1999

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.

Starring

Rogério Samora, François d'Artemare, Adelino Cardoso, Maria João Mayer, Manuel Carlos Pinto, Margarida Cardoso, Margarida Cardoso, Luís Alcobia, José Barahona, Hermínia Silva

Director

Margarida Cardoso