Sambizanga
- This is a past program
The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents classic film and contemporary cinema in the Hammer's Billy Wilder Theater.
Los Angeles restoration premiere
Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.
When a dockworker in an Angolan port city is arrested for attempting to organize his fellow laborers, his wife Maria (Elisa Andrade) makes the arduous trek from their small village to plead for his release. Director and cowriter Sarah Maldoror’s gripping adaptation of José Luandino Vieira’s novella recounts the events preceding the armed struggle against Portuguese rule beginning in 1961. (1972, dir. Sarah Maldoror, DCP from the UCLA Film & Television Archive, color, 102 min.)
In person: Annouchka de Andrade, daughter of director Sarah Maldoror, and UCLA Cinema and Media Studies associate professor Ellen Scott.