The_Hero_(2004_film)

<i>The Hero</i> (2004 film)

The Hero (2004 film)

2004 Angolan film

The Hero (Portuguese: O Herói; French: Un héros) is a 2004 Angolan-Portuguese-French film directed by Zézé Gamboa. It was filmed on location in Angola and won the World Dramatic Competition Grand Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.[1]

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Plot

The Hero follows the intersecting lives of four individuals living in Luanda in the wake of the Angolan Civil War: Vitório, a war veteran crippled by a landmine in search of a job; Manu, a ten year old boy searching for his father four years after his disappearance; Joana, a second-grade teacher who mentors Manu; and Judite/Maria Barbara, a prostitute who begins a romantic relationship with Vitório.

Reception

In addition to its Sundance award, The Hero received awards from over twenty-five other film festivals.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    The Hero California Newsreel
  2. [2]
    Sabine, Mark (2012). "Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and protest in O Herói/The Hero (Zézé Gamboa, 2004)" (PDF). Journal of African Cinemas. 3 (2): 201–219. doi:10.1386/jac.3.2.201_1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-19. Retrieved 2019-07-06.



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