The Islands' Message
The journey of an intellectual Creole. Before returning from Lisbon to Luanda, he stops in the Cape Verde islands in search of his ethnic and cultural roots.
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Director
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Writer
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
A 1979 TV mini-series.
Adapted from two legends of the Nyaneka people in southeastern Angola. Set during a time of famine, and with only two families surviving, the film charts the struggle of Nelisita, a young man who confronts the spirits with help from animals and his friends.
1979 Angolan documentary.
A documentary in which Angolan laborers describe their working conditions under colonial rule.
