Natal 71 25 years old

Memories of a fascist dictatorship, memories of a country closed to the world.

Natal 71 is the name of a record given to the soldiers of the portuguese colonies overseas for Christmas 1971. Niassa's Songbook is the title of an audiotape illegally recorded by soldiers during the war years, in Mozambique. They are memories from a country which was shut from the rest of the world, poor and ignorant, laid to sleep by a stale and primitive propaganda which tried to hide all the conflicts from us and kept us from thinking and recognising the repressive nature of the regime we lived in.

Credits

Natal 71 Cast

Name	Character
João Maria Pinto	as himself
Hermínia Silva She was 91, 85 years old when she died	as herself
Rogério Samora He was 40, now 66 years old	as narrator (voice)

Natal 71 Crew

Name	Department
Margarida Cardoso as Director. She was 35 (now 61) years old	Directing
Margarida Cardoso as Writer. She was 35 (now 61) years old	Writing