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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://beloit.worldcat.org/oclc/40677102 Title: Rostov-Luanda Author: Abderrahmane Sissako; Movimento Production (Paris); Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française; Morgane Films; California Newsreel (Firm) Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1997. OCLC:40677102

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Rostov-Luanda

Author:	Abderrahmane Sissako; Movimento Production (Paris); Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.; Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française.; Morgane Films.; All authors
Publisher:	San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1997.
Series:	Library of African cinema (Videocassette)
Edition/Format:	VHS video : VHS tape Visual material : FrenchView all editions and formats
Summary:	Sissako spent a year in Rostov on the Don and there became friends with a young man from Angola. This film chronicles the director' s search for a friend of the past. In this personal retrospective, Sissako encounters present-day Angola and traces the great lines of Africa's recent history.

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Genre/Form:	Feature films Documentary films History Personal narratives French language films Foreign language films Foreign films
Named Person:	Abderrahmane Sissako; Abderrahmane Sissako
Material Type:	Videorecording
Document Type:	Visual material
All Authors / Contributors:	Abderrahmane Sissako; Movimento Production (Paris); Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.; Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française.; Morgane Films.; California Newsreel (Firm) Find more information about:
Language Note:	In French and Portuguese with English subtitles.
OCLC Number:	40677102
Credits:	Director/writer, Abderrahmane Sissako; director of photography, Jacques Besse ; editor, Claudio Martinez ; music, Man're.
Performer(s):	Featuring: Abderrahmane Sissako, Natalie Lvovna, Cheickna Sylla, Tante Touele, Senhor Silva, Alberto Passos.
Description:	1 videocassette (59 min., 36 sec.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Details:	VHS ; Dolby surround.
Series Title:	Library of African cinema (Videocassette)
Responsibility:	un film de/ein Film von Abderrahmane Sissako ; une production de/eine Produktion von Movimento en coproduction avec/in Ko-Produktion ZDF, RTBF & Morgane Films.
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Sissako spent a year in Rostov on the Don and there became friends with a young man from Angola. This film chronicles the director' s search for a friend of the past. In this personal retrospective, Sissako encounters present-day Angola and traces the great lines of Africa's recent history.

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Abderrhmane Sissako's family welcomes his return home to his birthplace of Kiffa, Mauritania, since many of the young Africans who traveled abroad for education choose "never to go back home." Rostov-Luanda, a title in California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema, is the story Abderrhmane Sissako's search through Angola for his friend Alfonso Baribanga. Sissako and Baribanga, a young Angolan intellectual, had met as students in Rostov-on-Don, USSR in 1980 and have not seen one another for sixteen years. Armed with a borrowed copy of a group photo of the young foreign nationals who had studied in Soviet schools, Abderrhmane Sissako travels to Angola to search for his lost friend and at the same time to explore the destiny of the Angolan people.

Sissako's intensely personal documentary examines a nation that, since gaining its independence in 1975, has struggled through years of civil strife. The bullet-riddled buildings, the thwarted dreams, and the empty landscapes reveal this nation's disastrous post-colonial experiences. The photograph and quest for Baribanga trigger deeply personal responses from Angolans, black, white and mixed race, about the war, the legacy of Portuguese colonialism, and their hopes for the future.

The camera records the voices of the people of the urban areas of Luanda and Huambo: the young orphan who lived for a time by his wits on the street; the school teacher who left but then returned to rebuild the nation; the apolitical veteran who, in a voice laden with irony, points out that her political friends all left the country; the old man whose children fled to Portugal but found that he could not; the taxi driver who yearned to become a Formula One driver.

The sun bleached buildings, the pessimistic commentary, and the at times empty roads of Angola seem to imply that the future is without promise. Yet if the search for Baribanga is a metaphor for Angola's recent past, it resolves on a note of hope. Sissako finds Baribanga living in Berlin. But in the brief encounter between the two men, as they talk in the language they learned together, Russian, Baribanga says he is returning home.

Recommended for college and university collections with the following subject areas: African History, Politics, and Government, Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies.

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