Rostov-Luanda

get-it-nowrostovDirector:  Abderrahmane Sissako

Writer:  Abderrahmane Sissako

Actor(s): N/A

Production Co.: California Newsreel

Country: Angola

Year: 1997

Language and subtitle information: In Portuguese and French with English subtitles

Format: VHS

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Summary: Sissako spent a year in Rostov on the Don and there became friends with a young man from Angola. This film chronicles the director’s search for a friend of the past. In this personal retrospective, Sissako encounters present-day Angola and traces the great lines of Africa’s recent history.

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