# Monangambééé (1968) — on MUBI?

- **Director:** Sarah Maldoror
- **Cast:** Elisa Andrade, Carlos Pestana, Mohamed Zinet
- **Genres:** Short, Drama
- **Runtime:** 16 min
- **MUBI rating:** 7.5/10 (868 ratings)

## Available on MUBI in
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## Synopsis
Filmmaker-griot coming from the theater, it was with a camera, while the war in Vietnam occupied everyone's minds, that Sarah Maldoror gave visibility to the African wars of decolonization: Angola, Guinea Bissau, French Guinea, Cape Verde... Her short film Monangambée addresses the torture by the Portuguese army of a sympathizer of the Angolan resistance. At the end of editing, Sarah Maldoror approached the members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago during a Parisian concert and offered to add sound to her film. The next day they watched the film, were convinced and recorded their first soundtrack for free as evidence of African-American solidarity. Shot in Algiers, Monangambée is a film about torture and, more broadly, about the incomprehension between the colonized and the colonizers. It is based on a novel by the Angolan writer Luandino Vieira, then imprisoned by the Portuguese colonial power.

Watch on MUBI: https://mubi.com/films/monangambeee

Page: https://mubimap.com/film/monangamb/ · Data: MUBI catalog (42 countries) + TMDB · Updated 2026-09-10