Guerre du Peuple en Angola

The film contains an excerpt from "Angola 63", a film by Claude Otzenberger.

The copy shown at DocLisboa 2022 misses a scrolling text of 48 seconds: «November 11, 1975 - Proclamation by the MPLA of the Popular Republic of Angola. Departure of the Portuguese troops. [September 17] Two intervention forces, armed and financed by the CIA and the European governments, march against Luanda. / From the north, under the flag of the FNLA, it's the army of Mobutu. From the south, under the flag of UNITA, the army of apartheid's South Africa. / February 1976 - Thanks to the active support by Cuba, the Soviet Union, and the progressive forces in the world, the Angolan people manages to drive out definitively the aggressors of its young Republic. It is a new era that is opening for the whole of the liberation forces in southern Africa.»