Serge Michel

Writing

Serge Michel

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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NR

Documentary about an international meeting of Ministers of Education from Guinea Bissau, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and other post-colonial countries.

Reconstrução, Educação

1978

Monangambeee poster
6.8

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.

Monangambeee

1968

The Hospital of Leningrad poster
9.0

A story of political imprisonment set in a mental hospital where the Stalin state police placed whoever their opponents were.

The Hospital of Leningrad

1983

Guns of Freedom poster
10.0

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN ​​detachment whose perilous mission is to transport weapons and ammunition from Tunisia across the Algerian Sahara during the Algerian liberation war (1954-1962) against the French army of occupation.

Guns of Freedom

1961