1992  ·  Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, France, United Kingdom  ·  Fiction

Udju azul di Yonta (The blue eyes of Yonta)

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Udju azul di Yonta (The blue eyes of Yonta)

  • 1992
  • Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, France, United Kingdom
  • Fiction
  • Portuguese, Guinea-Bissau Creole
  • French
  • 98 mins
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Yonta, a beautiful young woman much admired and the daughter of a former freedom fighter, and her brother Amílcar, named after the leader of the fight for independence – the extraordinary intellectual, agronomist, diplomat, and politician Amílcar Cabral – take part in a new struggle against the burden of the colonial legacy. While Amílcar and the other children embody the unwavering solidarity of African ethics, Yonta is in love with a former freedom fighter and courted by a young man shaped by incompatible European ideals – the blue eyes from a Swedish book that he copies out in an attempt to win her affection.

Credits

Director
Flora Gomes
Writer
Flora Gomes, Ina César, David Lang, Manuel Rambout Barcelos
Producer
Paulo de Sousa

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