Zézé Gamboa

[1] He started working as a news producer in Angolan television in May 1974.[2] Gamboa started film-making by making documentaries.He also worked on Foreign Land (1995), directed by Walter Salles, and Napomuceno's Will, Francisco Manso's 1997 film adaptation of Germano Almeida's novel The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo.[1] The Hero (2004) tells the story of a man attempting to recover his stolen prosthetic limb in an Angola trying to rebuild itself after the civil war.[3] Critic Olivier Barlet has characterized Gamboa's The Great Kilapy (2012), "a burlesque biopic about a professional swindler" in 1970s Angola, as using farce to "reveal the extent to which the contradictions of the colony already bore the seeds of decolonization".
LuandaBelgiumLisbonForeign LandWalter SallesNapomuceno's WillFrancisco MansoGermano AlmeidaThe Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva AraújoThe Herothe civil warJury Prize2005 Sundance Film FestivalOlivier BarletThe Great KilapydecolonizationO Herói / The HeroO Grande Kilapy / The Great KilapyBarlet, Olivier