Filming the Story of Amílcar Cabral’s Revolution

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Filming the Story of Amílcar Cabral’s Revolution

Half a century ago, Amílcar Cabral asked a group of young filmmakers from Guinea-Bissau to bring his country’s independence struggle to the big screen. They’re now completing the project as a tribute to one of Africa’s greatest revolutionaries. Amílcar Cabral in 1971. (Lehtikuva / AFP via Getty Images) In the early 1970s, the African liberation leader Amílcar Cabral entrusted a group of four young filmmakers from Guinea-Bissau with documenting…