A Voice of the Free Angola (1976)

Documentary №7780, 3 parts, duration: 0:28:42
Production: CSDF (RCSDF)
Availability:Film hasn't been digitized
Director:Sveshnikova I.
Screenwriters:Ignatenko V.
Camera operators:Bgancev I., Lebedev O.
Anouncers:Tatarskiy V.

Annotation:

About THE history of the struggle of the Angolan people for independence and the first days of the independence they gained.

Temporary description:

1-3h. Life in the Angolan civil war. MPLA army liberated the city of Bie: the ruin, desolation. Living in Luanda - Angola's capital: the work of enterprises, a lesson in school. Undeclared War: South African troops, mercenaries, the Portuguese captured.

Reel №1

Night battle, shooting guerrillas - LS.

Soldiers of the People's Army in the radio, said political commissar of the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola captain Loy (synchronous) - Various.

Building stations in the liberated town of Bie: fighters in the corridors, the announcer is the transfer - different.

Newsreel:

Grave.

The meeting - LS., MS.

Collecting pineapple plantations (working Africans), the canning factory (on the assembly line work Angolans).

Freight containers, scribbled various inscriptions in foreign languages ​​- different.

Africans working for logging.

Sawmill - different.

Photo: corpses - LS.

Through the deserted streets of the city are Bie People's Army soldiers.

House walls covered with slogans - LS., MS.

Ruined house next to it children - different., PNRM.

Soldiers on the streets talking with residents.

Distribution of bread, women carry baskets of bread - Various., PNRM.

In the courtyard of the fort of San Miguel are monuments to the Spanish colonizers - CU., PNRM.

Old houses of the former ghetto, women with the conduit banks - different., PNRM.

Corridors and the prison yard - different., PNRM.

Reel №2

Newsreel:

Portuguese troops pass - LS., PNRM.

Explosions, burning earth - LS.

Guerrillas swear (synchronously).

Chairman of the party MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola), Agostinho Neto in the squad - LS., CU.

Refugees at the airport, board the plane - LS., MS.

Boxes with the goods are ready for shipment - MS., CU.

Mercenaries get off the bus and ran to the plane, board the plane - LS., PNRM.

Along the road broken appliances.

People's Army fighters ride on a truck.

Downed aircraft in the field.

On the way, is a detachment of insurgents.

The tanks drive through part of the People's Army.

Raising the flag of Angola over the fort of San Miguel - LS., CU.

Portuguese army armory: boxes of ammunition, in piles machines - LS., MS., PNRM.

Abandoned head reactionary organization residence Savimbi of UNITA in Huambo: scattered posters, documents, portraits Savimbi - different., PNRM.

Destroyed factories, broken tractors - different., PNRM.

They say the prisoners in the prison yard Portuguese Army soldiers and the army of South Africa (synchronous) - Various., PNRM.

Photos: Savimbi - LS.; Initiator conspiracy against Angola, General Spinola - LS.; Director FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola) H. Roberto - LS.; Chinese instructors of the Portuguese army generals - LS.

Reel №3

Newsreel:

Extraordinary Assembly of the Organization of African Unity: the hall is administered prisoners of war in the South African troops carried out an armed intervention in the People's Republic of Angola - LS., MS., PNRM.

Rural landscape: there are woman and child - LS., CU., PNRM.

Farmers work on a banana plantation - different.

The villagers are dancing in the street - different.

Luanda: people with the banks are in the queue for kerosene - different.

Refinery - MS.

Port: working dockers, containers with goods worth Soviet trucks - different., PNRM.

Children in the classroom.

Textile mill workers on political studies - different.

Report on the streets of Luanda - Various.

Emergency international conference of solidarity with the people of Angola: in the hall from various countries.

To the President of the People's Republic of Angola, Agostinho Neto (simultaneously in Spanish) in the audience applauded - Various.

Military parade in Luanda: are the people's army unit, the people in the stands, in the box - Neto and other members of the government - are different., PNRM.

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