| DIRECTOR: |
Fernando D´Almeida e Silva |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Fernando D´Almeida e Silva,
Luis Carlos Patraquim |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Acácio De Almeida |
| EDITION: |
Fernando D´Almeida e Silva |
| MUSIC: |
Ramon Galarza |
| CAST: |
Maria de Medeiros, João
Grosso, Angelo Torres, José Eduardo, João
Lagarto, Eugénia Bettencourt |
| PRODUCER: |
Ana Costa |
| PRODUCTION:
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Cinemate
Av. Rainha D. Amélia, 12-A - 1600 Lisboa -
Portugal
Tel. 00 35 11 983-4489
Fax: 00 35 11 983-4644 |
| WORLD
SALES: |
Cinemate
Av. Rainha D. Amélia, 12-A - 1600 Lisboa -
Portugal
Tel. 00 35 11 983-4489
Fax: 00 35 11 983-4644 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Tempestade da Terra |
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Col., 112 min., 1996 |
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Fernando D’Almeida e Silva was born
in Mozambique in 1945. At an early age, he made
some films in 8mm at Cineclube in Lourenço
Marques, the capital of Mozambique. He studied
cinema and television in London where he also
made a short length film, Um Vôo Cego ao Nada
(1973). He returned to Mozambique, with films
reporting on the revolution and, in 1976, he used
the material for his first feature. Mozambique -
Um Ano de Independência. In 1979, he moved to
Brazil and worked with Ruy Guerra. It was at this
Brazilian phase that he made Amenic in 1984. In
1992, after a visit to Cuba, he settled in
Portugal where he made Carga Infernal (1995) and
this Earth’s Storm.
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Above
political, social, and racial differences, is told in
flashbacks in this plot that reproduces the golden years
of Mozambique, the colonial war, and the independence of
the country.Lena is white. Ningo is black, employed in
the house of Lena’s parents. They grew up together
in the colony of Mozambique and the friendship was kept
in the social and political changes which the country
underwent.In Maputo, 20 years later, Ningo receives a
telephone call from Dona Amélia, his former employer,
Lena’s mother, who explains to him that her daughter
has disappeared in Lisbon. Ningo returns to the old house
where he once lived, in Lisbon, where he goes back over
old times to discover signs of where she might be. He
remembers Jorge, Lena’s boyfriend and later agent of
repression in the struggle for the independence of
Mozambique.Ningo goes in search of Jorge, sure that he is
involved in Lena’s disappearance. Now Jorge is an
“honest” citizen concealing a past that no one
knows. He has killed and tortured so many people and has
never been sorry. He might be said to be a happy man and
only one thing is missing: to win Lena.