.
Cabo-de-Guerra
Vuta N’Kuvute / Tug of War
Tanzânia, África do Sul, Alemanha, Catar | 2021 | 93 min | Ficção | 14 anos
Direção: Amil Shivji
Roteiro: Amil Shivji e Jenna Bass
Fotografia: Zenn Van Zyl
Elenco: Ikhlas Gafur Vora, Gudrun Columbus Mwanyika, Siti Amina
Synopsis
Denge, a young freedom fighter, meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman, in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution ensue in this coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. A young revolutionary and a runaway bride struggle for forbidden freedoms, in Amil Shivji’s adaptation of Adam Shafi’s award-winning Swahili novel, set in 1950s Zanzibar, a romance is buffeted by the harsh waves of British rule and the local militant struggle for liberation.
About the director
Denge, a young freedom fighter, meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman, in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution ensue in this coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. A young revolutionary and a runaway bride struggle for forbidden freedoms, in Amil Shivji’s adaptation of Adam Shafi’s award-winning Swahili novel, set in 1950s Zanzibar, a romance is buffeted by the harsh waves of British rule and the local militant struggle for liberation.