O Tempo dos Leopardos

1985 Mozambican film

Luis Patraquim
Branimir Šćepanović
Zdravko Velimirovic

Based onstory by Licínio de AzevedoProduced by

Mihajlo Rašić
Luis Simao

Starring

Santos Mulungo
Ana Magaia
Simiao Mazuze
Marcelino Alves
Armando Loja

CinematographyDušan NinkovEdited byMarko BabacMusic by

Kornelije Kovač

Production
companies

Avala Film
CFS Košutnjak
Instituto Nacional de Cinema de Moçambique

Release date

June 16, 1985 (1985-06-16)

Running time

99 minutesCountryMozambiqueLanguagePortuguese

O Tempo dos Leopardos (Serbian: Време леопарда/Vreme leoparda) is a 1985 war drama. It is a Yugoslav-Mozambican co-production directed by Zdravko Velimirović. O Tempo dos Leopardos was the first Mozambican feature film.^[1]

Cast

Ana Magaia as Ana
Armando Loja as Armando
Santos Mulungo as Pedro
Simiao Mazuze as Januario
Marcelino Alves as Vasco

Credits

Screenplay: Luis Patraquim, Branimir Šćepanović, Zdravko Velimirović
Production design: Machado da Graca
Stage design: Fausta Ficnocchi
Music composer: Kornelije Kovač
Editing: Marko Babac
Script supervisor: Ranka Velimirović
1st assistant director: Camilo de Sousa
2nd assistant director: Henrique Caldeira
2nd assistant director: Sol de Carvalho
Sound editor: Dragan Cenerić

Plot

The Time of the Leopards is set Mozambique in 1971, the last days of Portuguese colonial occupation. The film is a fictional account of the anti-colonial Mozambican War of Independence told from the perspective of the colonised.^[2]

References

^ Darch, Colin (2018). Historical Dictionary of Mozambique. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 238. ISBN 9781538111352.
^ Arenas, Fernando (2011). Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence. University of Minnesota Press. p. 230. ISBN 9780816669837.