O Tempo dos Leopardos
Directed byZdravko Velimirovic
Screenplay by
Based onstory by Licínio de Azevedo
Produced by
  • Mihajlo Rašić
  • Luis Simao
Starring
  • Santos Mulungo
  • Ana Magaia
  • Simiao Mazuze
  • Marcelino Alves
  • Armando Loja
CinematographyDušan Ninkov
Edited byMarko Babac
Music by
Production
companies
  • Avala Film
  • CFS Košutnjak
  • Instituto Nacional de Cinema de Moçambique
Release date
  • June 16, 1985 (1985-06-16)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryMozambique
LanguagePortuguese

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]

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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]

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References

  1. ^ Darch, Colin (2018). Historical Dictionary of Mozambique. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 238. ISBN 9781538111352.
  2. ^ Arenas, Fernando (2011). Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence. University of Minnesota Press. p. 230. ISBN 9780816669837.