''O Tempo dos Leopardos'' ( sr, 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
A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...
.
Cast
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Ana Magaia as Ana
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Armando Loja as Armando
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Santos Mulungo as Pedro
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Simiao Mazuze as Januario
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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
Kornelije "Bata" Kovač ( sr-Cyrl, Корнелије "Бата" Ковач, ; hu, Kovács Kornél; 1 January 1942 – 13 September 2022) was a Serbian composer.
Early life
Born in Niš during World War II in the Nazi-occupied Serbia to a ...
* 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
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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
The Mozambican War of Independence ( pt, Guerra da Independência de Moçambique, 'War of Independence of Mozambique') was an armed conflict between the guerrilla forces of the Mozambique Liberation Front or FRELIMO () and Portugal. The w ...
told from the perspective of the colonised.
See also
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Mozambican War of Independence
The Mozambican War of Independence ( pt, Guerra da Independência de Moçambique, 'War of Independence of Mozambique') was an armed conflict between the guerrilla forces of the Mozambique Liberation Front or FRELIMO () and Portugal. The w ...
References
External links
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''O Tempo dos Leopardos''at the
Internet Archive
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1985 films
Yugoslav drama films
Mozambican drama films
1985 drama films
Films directed by Zdravko Velimirović
1980s Portuguese-language films
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