O Tempo dos Leopardos

O Tempo dos Leopardos
O Tempo dos Leopardos
Directed by	Zdravko Velimirovic
Screenplay by	Luis Patraquim; Branimir Šćepanović; Zdravko Velimirovic;
Based on	story by Licínio de Azevedo
Produced by	Mihajlo Rašić; Luis Simao;
Starring	Santos Mulungo; Ana Magaia; Simiao Mazuze; Marcelino Alves; Armando Loja;
Cinematography	Dušan Ninkov
Edited by	Marko Babac
Music by	Kornelije Kovač;
Production; companies	Avala Film; CFS Košutnjak; Instituto Nacional de Cinema de Moçambique;
Release date	June 16, 1985;
Running time	99 minutes
Country	Mozambique
Language	Portuguese

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.