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It's 1975.
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The Vietnam War is over but the Cold war still rages.
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The two powers, USA and the USSR,
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are tearing the world apart to expand their influence.
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That same year,
the Portuguese colonial empire has collapsed.
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After five centuries of domination,
Portugal is leaving her African colonies.
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The last and most coveted, Angola.
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This crown jewel
will soon be an independent country.
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Independence Day's been booked, it's in the calendar,
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November the 11th, just a month away.
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But as usual, it's never that simple.
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While the Portuguese flee taking as much as they can,
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a civil war erupts between two Angolan factions.
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To the winner, a land rich in diamonds and petrol...
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which is why the two world powers
have picked their sides,
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and just like that Angola has become
the new Cold War chessboard.
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Russia is backing the Socialist MPLA...
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while the capitalists FNLA and UNITA
they have America watching their backs.
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Armed to the teeth, they want power at any price.
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Most often, the price of their brother's blood.
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Many are convinced the country will turn into a hell.
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Those who could were fleeing Angola
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Me?
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I was bent on going there!
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DEATH TO COMMUNISTS DEATH TO MPLA
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Crazy MPLA people
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Mama! I don't like it here!
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Taxi! Taxi! Would you take me to the airport?
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This country won't last!
Forty years of work I've put in here!
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Please, can you hurry up!
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Who's gonna pay me back!
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Faster! We need to get out of here!
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Give me a break! Do you see any soldiers?
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Do you really want to wait here until they come?
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They say they will kill tonight.
They say they are planning it!
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Calm down, calm down my friend.
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They won't attack today, nobody's coming, okay?
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Let's go, c'mon! Out of the building, now!
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It's a cosmic mess.
And they have a word for that here...
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Confuçao, confuçao, confuçao! Yes?
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It's a good word. A synthesis word. An everything word.
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Excuse me. There's no water in my room.
The water doesn't work.
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Water? I don't know! Confuçao! Yes?
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If the FNLA and UNITA are backed by the Americans,
won't that end the war?
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I don't know! Confuçao!
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Fuckers!
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When are the cargo ships leaving? I still have to
my load my possessions, when are they leaving!
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Wow! Easy, easy...
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You ask me? Ask the port authority!
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Dona Cartagina!
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Ricardo, hi! Mua!
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My name is Ryszard Kapuscinski.
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I work for the Polish Press Agency.
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Their only foreign reporter,
covering 50 countries around the world.
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A new Africa is being born in Angola.
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There is no way I wasn't going to be here.
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And this is Luanda.
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City of paranoia.
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City of chaos.
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My favorite.
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Welcome to my cage.
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CONNECTION
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It's him
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Again?
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Are you kidding me?
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Jesus!
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Good morning!
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You're a pain in the ass, Mr Kapuscinski.
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Nelson!
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What is it this time?
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I wanna go South.
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Are you crazy?
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You're not taking a step out of this city!
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C'mon!
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The Southern front!
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Your only outpost down there...
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Pereira d'Eça? The place, the key.
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South Africa is really close and we all know
it's got America’s backing.
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And the last thing the MPLA needs is a dead reporter.
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C'mon! Who is your commander in the south?
Just a name.
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Farrusco.
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Good. Farrusco.
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Oh, no, no, no, it's 1500 kilometers away.
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Pereira d'Eça.
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No!
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How many different ways can I tell you no!
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There's my story.
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Nai?
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Nai?
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Nie.
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Nie. Yes, nie!
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Why are you smiling man?
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I will get my permit.
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You will, huh?
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I'll be back tomorrow.
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Bring your smile!
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Oh I will!
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My wife says it's the first thing she noticed about me.
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Psss...
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I'm talking about a free country Friedkin,
a free country...
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Aaah... You are wrong.
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November the 11th, Independence Day for all Angola!
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Here we go again, MPLA dailies!
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Our brave soldiers control Lubango,
Benguela, Pereira d'Eça. Our borders are sealed.
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Ah... Excuse me, is that with Soviet help or Cuban,
Mr. Nelson?
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Jesus, stop it Friedkin, it's boring already.
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The only foreign power trying to take hold
here is your very own CIA,
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backing the cannibals of UNITA...
write that into your newspaper!
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The Cubans are already here, admit it, Artur!
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It's rumors!
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Just like the CIA rumors!
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No, no, no, no, the CIA is not rumors!
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Rumors! Yes! They are rumors!
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You know what? No more. This is my country.
That's what you don't understand.
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I grew up under injustice and absence of freedom.
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Not mine: somebody else's.
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And my mother whispered in my ear,
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"Son, you must always stand with those who suffer".
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I unconditionally positioned myself
on the side of the...
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...of the MPLA.
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We had a popular army.People armed themselves.
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You, me, anyone.
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And at that time, in 1975, I was in that fight
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when I met Kapuscinski, Ricardo.
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C'mon guys!
All you talk about is rumors the whole time.
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I wanna talk about the front lines. Not Luanda.
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Not Benguela. Here. Pereira d'Eça. The Southern Front.
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This is where the war will be decided.
This is where I'm gonna go.
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Good luck.
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The MPLA commander down there is called Farrusco.
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Oh! I've heard of him.
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Holding the entire southern front.
One man, entire front
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Ah... Chasing ghosts, Kapuscinski.
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Do you think Nelson's news is any more real, huh?
There are no facts here.
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Just Confusço, huh? Yeah
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Yes. And everybody is afraid to say anything
in case the CIA hears!
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Ha! C-I-A!
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And how could you know all of this, huh?
Oh yes, Ricardo likes to "play spy".
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Yeah.
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I just like to get to the heart of things.
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Ah...
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Farrusco. He is the story.
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I know him! Fuckin' bastard piece of shit!
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Hey hey!
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He smokes like whisky... Whisky and cigarettes.
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Motherfucker. Farrusco. Fucking traitor.
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Oh!
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A traitor?
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Yeah. He is fucking Portuguese... just like me!
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We came together to Angola. Portuguese paratroopers.
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But he is a deserter. He joined the MPLA.
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And now that fucking son of a bitch he will die
for those Communist bastards!
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Easy, easy, easy...
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Yeah! Communist bastards!
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If I see him again,
I'll cut his fuckin' throat from ear to ear!
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. . . Hey. Hey hey. Is this your friend?
Take him home, teach him how to drink!
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Put your hands off me! I can walk! I'm ok!
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I guess you'd call that a reliable source, huh?
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The only MPLA man in the south
protecting Angola is a Portuguese traitor?
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Excellent. Too good to miss.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. . .
Nobody's gonna give you a pass.
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So come with me, Artur.
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You're an Angolan,
I don't need the permit if you take me there.
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Oh...
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You're fuckin' crazy!
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Couldn't be more serious, my friend.
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The South is different!
You don't know the enemy from a friend down there.
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They're not even wearing uniforms.
It's like Russian Roulette, Ricardo.
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Come with me, Artur.
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You know what?
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What's this guy smoking?
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Let's go to the best place in town.
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Okay, let's go!
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Let's go!
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He loved that atmosphere.
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Especially that of the suburbs and the musseques.
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The biggest support for the MPLA
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came from the neighbourhoods
and the musseques.
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MPLA's activists were heavily armed
in the neighbourhoods,
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and when we entered we felt at home,
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totally safe.
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With Angola independent that's the whole
continent now! Africa is awakening...
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Feels good, huh?
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But you know what? She needs names.
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Names?
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Slave traders took millions of people,
but can we name a single victim?
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Africa doesn't need victims.
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No, no, no... but her entire history
has been anonymous, now she needs a voice.
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An African Che Guevara.
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Why not?
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Yeah, why not?
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God help us.
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Ah...
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C'mon Friedkin.
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When Che Guevara arrived in the Congo,
the command structure was in numbers.
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The first-in-Command, number one.
Second-in-Command, number two.
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And Che took only number three.
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Three? Number three?
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Yes. Just the translator .
Because that way he stays low, under the net,
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finds the truth.
and puts the black man above the white man.
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Ah! So the bullet takes the black guy first! Genius!
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Enough! Enough, enough. . . enough talk.
Now, we dance. C'mon Friedkin.
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I don't dance.
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Ha! Ha! Ha!
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You hang on every word, Friedkin, on every word!
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Força amigo! Dança camarada! Vamos polaco!
Força Angola! Dança polaco, dança polaco!
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Ricardo, they've been through the whole hotel.
Every room.
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It's such a mess. It's the FNLA.
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Please Ricardo, go back to Poland.
You are not safe here.
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YOU'RE DEAD, SOCIALIST REPORTER
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Do you know when you're living on the edge
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and your life is no longer worth a great deal?
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It's much easier to make friends. We became friends.
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A friendship that's only possible
when you are totally hopeless.
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No.
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Again?
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No!
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My dear students...
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who can tell me:
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What draws a man out into the world?
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Curiosity?
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Hunger for experience?
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The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow,
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possessed of an extinguished heart.
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If he believes he's seen it all,
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then something most precious has died within him...
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the delight in life.
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The police are chasing down the street!
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Please somebody help me!
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The city is dying.
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Disappearing.
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First, the Portuguese police left,
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and the country fell into anarchy.
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Then, the firemen left.
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Then, the garbage-men.
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Finally, the colonials,
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saying goodbye to their African homes
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with a mixture of despair and anger.
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In the docks of Luanda.
a new wooden city begins to rise.
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Portuguese lives boxed up in crates,
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the richer the people, the bigger the crate.
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Everything has to be squeezed in.
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And all that remains to do is to lock the door...
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and say your final goodbye.
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All they wanted was to save their lives
and their property.
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They didn't want Angola...
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That's one helluva news report, Polish!
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...any more.
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D'ya put all that in your telex?
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Oh boy, your bosses must love you!
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C'mon, we got to go
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Nelson's called a press conference.
254
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Artur, c'mon.
255
00:15:58,600 --> 00:15:59,975
This guy, he's a fake!
256
00:16:01,142 --> 00:16:03,429
He's running after this imaginary Francesco!
257
00:16:03,475 --> 00:16:04,885
Farrusco.
258
00:16:04,933 --> 00:16:05,716
Artur...
259
00:16:07,517 --> 00:16:08,667
You wanna know what I've seen?
260
00:16:08,808 --> 00:16:09,875
I've seen his reports,
261
00:16:09,975 --> 00:16:11,789
Artur, there's nothing there, absolutely nothing!
262
00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:14,162
And now he wants you to drive him to the South?
263
00:16:14,308 --> 00:16:16,122
Are you both crazy, for Christ sakes?!
264
00:16:16,433 --> 00:16:18,128
You'll get yourself killed!
265
00:16:18,183 --> 00:16:19,428
Angola!
266
00:16:30,558 --> 00:16:31,933
Helloo, are we going?
267
00:16:34,183 --> 00:16:34,930
Pack light.
268
00:16:35,933 --> 00:16:38,624
Heeey! Hey you can't do this to me!
269
00:16:39,392 --> 00:16:41,679
I pay gas money! You need me!
270
00:16:41,767 --> 00:16:43,509
Hey, no, no, no. . . for a.
271
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Fuckers.
272
00:16:56,142 --> 00:16:59,057
Hey, remember what I told you at the bar...
273
00:16:59,267 --> 00:17:00,831
about Russian Roulette?
274
00:17:02,183 --> 00:17:02,516
Yeah.
275
00:17:03,558 --> 00:17:07,541
Well, there's one thing you can do at a checkpoint.
276
00:17:08,475 --> 00:17:10,537
You can give the right greeting.
277
00:17:10,725 --> 00:17:14,577
We the MPLA we salute each other with "Camarada".
278
00:17:14,850 --> 00:17:15,537
Camarada.
279
00:17:15,642 --> 00:17:19,458
Aha. . . Our enemies they call each other "Irmâo".
280
00:17:19,892 --> 00:17:20,259
Irmâo.
281
00:17:20,308 --> 00:17:21,802
Choose the wrong one...
282
00:17:21,933 --> 00:17:23,747
you can start digging your own grave.
283
00:17:25,308 --> 00:17:26,245
Heads or tails.
284
00:17:26,642 --> 00:17:29,427
Yeah. Oh! And you know what?
285
00:17:29,808 --> 00:17:30,152
What?
286
00:17:30,183 --> 00:17:31,843
They never salute first.
287
00:17:42,642 --> 00:17:47,785
Kapuscinski suffered the reporter's insanity
that takes you to places
288
00:17:48,350 --> 00:17:50,721
which could be the last... But you go.
289
00:17:51,267 --> 00:17:52,262
And he went.
290
00:17:52,767 --> 00:17:56,334
The MPLA had the support of more than 90%*
of the Angolan people.
291
00:17:56,517 --> 00:17:59,871
Each citizen turned a defender of his homeland.
292
00:18:00,183 --> 00:18:01,997
Women, children,
293
00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,911
old people, the sick... Everyone.
294
00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:09,703
Those from FNLA and UNITA
were professional assassins.
295
00:18:09,892 --> 00:18:13,744
They murdered peasant towns of northern Angola
296
00:18:13,933 --> 00:18:15,379
in cold blood.
297
00:18:44,683 --> 00:18:46,722
When was the last time you were here?
298
00:18:46,933 --> 00:18:50,039
Since 75. I never came back.
299
00:18:50,933 --> 00:18:52,000
And what do you feel?
300
00:18:52,225 --> 00:18:54,003
Maybe a little anguish.
301
00:19:03,183 --> 00:19:04,049
Help! Help!
302
00:19:04,392 --> 00:19:05,506
Stop! Stop the car!
303
00:19:05,558 --> 00:19:06,459
Ajudame!
304
00:19:06,808 --> 00:19:08,053
It could be a trap.
305
00:19:09,850 --> 00:19:10,467
Shit.
306
00:19:43,767 --> 00:19:45,142
FNLA and UNITA,
307
00:19:45,933 --> 00:19:46,870
cruel armies.
308
00:19:47,767 --> 00:19:49,047
They are cannibals.
309
00:19:50,017 --> 00:19:51,676
Artur told me some days ago,
310
00:19:52,308 --> 00:19:53,245
I didn't believe him.
311
00:20:30,683 --> 00:20:31,086
Artur!
312
00:20:31,892 --> 00:20:32,757
There is one alive!
313
00:20:33,517 --> 00:20:34,453
There is one kid alive!
314
00:21:01,683 --> 00:21:05,500
What I saw, what I witnessed on this road was maybe
315
00:21:06,100 --> 00:21:09,016
the most infernal image I've ever seen in my life.
316
00:21:09,225 --> 00:21:13,385
Imagine several kilometers
of road scattered with corpses.
317
00:21:14,017 --> 00:21:15,332
About 40 or 50 km.
318
00:21:16,392 --> 00:21:20,587
We got out of the car and ran
to check if there was any child alive.
319
00:21:20,767 --> 00:21:22,177
But they were all dead.
320
00:21:22,350 --> 00:21:25,206
Mothers and children killed by the same shot.
321
00:21:27,017 --> 00:21:28,581
I lost peace forever.
322
00:21:28,725 --> 00:21:32,257
Right here on this road.
323
00:21:36,267 --> 00:21:40,000
I was aware they were going to massacre us here,
324
00:21:40,267 --> 00:21:42,744
it was almost like a death foretold.
325
00:21:56,725 --> 00:22:00,008
Artur! Cover.
326
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:06,098
Shit.
327
00:22:07,267 --> 00:22:08,298
Remember what I told you,
328
00:22:08,350 --> 00:22:10,827
Irmâo or Camarada, heads or tails!
329
00:22:19,683 --> 00:22:21,556
Press! We are from press.
330
00:22:22,017 --> 00:22:23,830
Easy. Easy.
331
00:22:26,517 --> 00:22:28,010
Easy. Easy.
332
00:22:38,808 --> 00:22:39,709
Let's say something!
333
00:22:40,808 --> 00:22:41,923
Let's say something!
334
00:22:44,725 --> 00:22:45,472
Camarada!
335
00:22:48,850 --> 00:22:49,716
Oh, shit...
336
00:22:55,225 --> 00:22:56,920
No! No, no, no, no...
337
00:22:56,975 --> 00:22:58,350
No! No, no..
338
00:23:02,767 --> 00:23:03,632
Get under!
339
00:23:04,475 --> 00:23:05,127
On the floor!
340
00:23:07,058 --> 00:23:07,959
Get your head down!
341
00:23:19,142 --> 00:23:20,884
You two sons of bitches up now!
342
00:23:23,017 --> 00:23:23,455
Shit.
343
00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:30,391
Just be still, I will talk, be still, just be still.
344
00:23:32,850 --> 00:23:33,324
Okay,
345
00:23:33,350 --> 00:23:34,108
With your hands up!
346
00:23:34,142 --> 00:23:35,007
Don't shoot.
347
00:23:38,142 --> 00:23:39,043
MPLA.
348
00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:40,036
Please don't shoot
349
00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:40,882
We are friends!
350
00:23:40,933 --> 00:23:41,585
We are from press.
351
00:23:41,725 --> 00:23:42,591
Reporters!
352
00:23:43,892 --> 00:23:45,586
What the fuck are you doing here?
353
00:23:47,767 --> 00:23:48,549
We have a permit.
354
00:23:49,892 --> 00:23:52,558
Bring me some medicine
and bandages from the truck, now!
355
00:24:03,308 --> 00:24:05,371
Shove it up your ass, reporter.
356
00:24:19,058 --> 00:24:19,841
What's your name?
357
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:21,133
Kambale.
358
00:24:23,892 --> 00:24:24,579
How old are you?
359
00:24:26,767 --> 00:24:28,177
They pay you to fight?
360
00:24:28,558 --> 00:24:29,210
They give food.
361
00:24:30,392 --> 00:24:32,086
They pay if we win the battle.
362
00:24:33,433 --> 00:24:34,429
So do you win any?
363
00:24:35,142 --> 00:24:36,635
I never fired a gun.
364
00:24:37,225 --> 00:24:39,596
They promised me school after war.
365
00:24:41,933 --> 00:24:45,382
Take the injured and the bodies into my truck, now.
366
00:24:52,392 --> 00:24:54,584
I was a journalist
367
00:24:54,933 --> 00:24:57,245
and a fighter at the same time.
368
00:24:57,892 --> 00:24:58,958
I had to...
369
00:24:59,225 --> 00:25:00,221
shoot.
370
00:25:01,225 --> 00:25:05,586
That's not worthy of a journalist,
but I was a fighter too.
371
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,540
I'm aware I broke
372
00:25:10,892 --> 00:25:12,634
my professional code.
373
00:25:13,558 --> 00:25:16,474
And not only I broke it, but also torpedoed it.
374
00:25:18,267 --> 00:25:20,459
Do you remember if you killed someone?
375
00:25:21,225 --> 00:25:23,631
I hope not. Whoever it was.
376
00:25:24,475 --> 00:25:26,514
Not even the cruelest assassin.
377
00:25:27,933 --> 00:25:30,091
No. I hope not.
378
00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:35,419
Airtight. C'mon Ricardo, get in the car,
we have to go.
379
00:25:41,183 --> 00:25:42,084
Ricardo.
380
00:25:46,308 --> 00:25:52,792
Ricardo, tomorrow morning,
the FNLA is gonna put all of this on the front pages
381
00:25:52,850 --> 00:25:54,379
blaming the MPLA.
382
00:25:55,142 --> 00:25:57,370
We have to report it first!
383
00:25:57,933 --> 00:25:59,249
Artur, I have to go south.
384
00:26:00,892 --> 00:26:03,014
What are you talking about?
385
00:26:03,933 --> 00:26:06,505
That road leads only to hell.
386
00:26:07,642 --> 00:26:08,175
Artur...
387
00:26:10,058 --> 00:26:11,303
I'll see you in Luanda.
388
00:26:13,308 --> 00:26:13,842
Ahh...
389
00:26:16,475 --> 00:26:18,952
I hope so, my friend.
390
00:26:20,183 --> 00:26:21,215
I hope so
391
00:26:21,725 --> 00:26:22,661
Ok, let's go,
392
00:26:24,267 --> 00:26:25,961
we have to reach Benguela as soon as possible.
393
00:26:38,683 --> 00:26:41,682
Branco, Branco...
394
00:26:50,350 --> 00:26:51,879
Photo, please, photo.
395
00:26:52,350 --> 00:26:54,543
Photo please...
396
00:26:56,183 --> 00:26:57,961
They all want to be photographed.
397
00:26:58,933 --> 00:26:59,870
To leave a trace,
398
00:27:01,017 --> 00:27:01,669
to remain.
399
00:27:03,433 --> 00:27:04,216
I was here.
400
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:06,536
This is how I looked.
401
00:27:08,225 --> 00:27:09,884
This is the face I had when I was alive.
402
00:27:53,975 --> 00:27:54,508
Hey!
403
00:27:55,142 --> 00:27:57,015
You! You, white man!
404
00:27:58,058 --> 00:27:59,339
Welcome to Benguela, huh?
405
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,473
You're in the wrong place.
406
00:28:03,225 --> 00:28:04,221
There's nothing here!
407
00:28:04,558 --> 00:28:05,874
Luanda that way.
408
00:28:06,058 --> 00:28:07,090
Well I'm going south.
409
00:28:07,142 --> 00:28:08,256
Pereira d'Eca.
410
00:28:09,558 --> 00:28:10,495
Farrusco, huh?
411
00:28:12,433 --> 00:28:14,721
Nobody is going to Farrusco!
412
00:28:14,808 --> 00:28:15,709
Don't listen to him.
413
00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:17,665
He's crazy, he's nobody.
414
00:28:18,683 --> 00:28:19,999
Nobody, huh?!
415
00:28:20,642 --> 00:28:21,708
I am Carlos!
416
00:28:22,017 --> 00:28:22,704
Carlos!
417
00:28:23,475 --> 00:28:24,506
Bring Daddy here!
418
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:25,715
Yes ma'am!
419
00:28:26,225 --> 00:28:27,256
Uuuu!
420
00:28:39,933 --> 00:28:40,870
Hello, amigo.
421
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:42,098
Hello,
422
00:28:42,475 --> 00:28:42,748
hi.
423
00:28:44,350 --> 00:28:45,037
Come upstairs!
424
00:28:55,808 --> 00:28:57,966
It was very weird he was there,
425
00:28:58,558 --> 00:29:01,593
a lonely Polish reporter...
426
00:29:02,017 --> 00:29:03,759
Why a Polish man?
427
00:29:04,267 --> 00:29:08,972
He shook my hand vigorously.
428
00:29:09,267 --> 00:29:11,578
He wasn't looking for friends.
429
00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:16,177
He was looking for people with authority
430
00:29:16,392 --> 00:29:22,412
who could take him to the key points of the war.
431
00:29:36,933 --> 00:29:38,000
Take me to the south.
432
00:29:39,683 --> 00:29:40,051
No!
433
00:29:40,392 --> 00:29:41,008
No south!
434
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,891
I sent five supply trucks two months ago to Farrusco.
435
00:29:47,975 --> 00:29:49,255
No one came back!
436
00:29:51,850 --> 00:29:53,593
We lost comms a month ago.
437
00:29:53,975 --> 00:29:57,329
. I'm wasting no more men or supplies on Farrusco.
438
00:29:58,142 --> 00:30:00,678
He's dead already as far as I know.
439
00:30:01,183 --> 00:30:02,049
Look around you.
440
00:30:03,017 --> 00:30:04,711
Soldiers barely out of diapers.
441
00:30:05,642 --> 00:30:06,637
No ammunition.
442
00:30:07,183 --> 00:30:08,499
Maybe Poland will help,
443
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:09,916
you are socialist, right?
444
00:30:11,017 --> 00:30:11,918
You help me,
445
00:30:12,142 --> 00:30:13,173
and I help you.
446
00:30:14,267 --> 00:30:14,883
Weapons,
447
00:30:15,725 --> 00:30:16,875
mortars, machine guns,
448
00:30:18,142 --> 00:30:18,758
tanks.
449
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,378
Write that to your readers!
450
00:30:22,142 --> 00:30:22,723
I will write.
451
00:30:24,183 --> 00:30:25,748
I can get your story out there.
452
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:27,003
But...
453
00:30:27,933 --> 00:30:30,091
what about one full convoy to Farrusco?
454
00:30:30,142 --> 00:30:30,675
No!
455
00:30:30,850 --> 00:30:31,123
Ah...
456
00:30:31,642 --> 00:30:32,258
C'mon!
457
00:30:32,683 --> 00:30:33,122
Listen...
458
00:30:33,683 --> 00:30:35,627
not just another defenseless truck,
459
00:30:35,892 --> 00:30:38,369
but a proper military expedition.
460
00:30:38,850 --> 00:30:40,225
And if it will succeed...
461
00:30:40,475 --> 00:30:43,758
I will have two heroes in the South.
462
00:30:45,142 --> 00:30:45,675
Farrusco
463
00:30:46,142 --> 00:30:46,474
and...
464
00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:47,503
Daddy.
465
00:30:53,767 --> 00:30:54,798
So...
466
00:30:57,683 --> 00:31:00,599
you want my best soldier...
467
00:31:00,850 --> 00:31:01,716
She drove me here.
468
00:31:03,850 --> 00:31:05,723
You like Carlota, huh?
469
00:31:05,767 --> 00:31:06,099
Yes.
470
00:31:08,183 --> 00:31:09,179
She saved my life.
471
00:31:11,767 --> 00:31:14,208
And then you will write about Daddy? Hm?
472
00:31:14,767 --> 00:31:15,703
And then I will write.
473
00:31:18,683 --> 00:31:19,549
Deal.
474
00:31:23,892 --> 00:31:26,642
Come on, guys, you help us?
475
00:31:28,183 --> 00:31:30,554
Come on, guys, you help us?
476
00:31:34,183 --> 00:31:36,625
How could you go wrong with her in the frame?
477
00:31:37,975 --> 00:31:40,417
She has a smile the world puts on magazine covers.
478
00:31:42,308 --> 00:31:43,553
The face of Angola.
479
00:31:46,933 --> 00:31:50,916
Carlota had such a charisma
480
00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:55,331
that from the beginning was intimately tied
481
00:31:55,517 --> 00:31:58,207
to the guarantee of victory.
482
00:31:59,225 --> 00:32:03,006
She was a very arrogant guerrilla, very determined,
483
00:32:03,267 --> 00:32:05,329
with her Kalashnikov...
484
00:32:05,642 --> 00:32:09,245
She had her own project of a nation.
485
00:32:09,517 --> 00:32:13,594
And she was very concerned about children,
486
00:32:13,725 --> 00:32:19,876
about how children would be educated in Angola
487
00:32:20,017 --> 00:32:21,759
in the foreseeable future.
488
00:33:07,975 --> 00:33:09,919
Kapuscinski asked me,
489
00:33:10,392 --> 00:33:11,956
"Are you scared?"
490
00:33:12,558 --> 00:33:17,832
And I said.
"The further we go, the greater will be the danger".
491
00:33:18,975 --> 00:33:20,670
And he smiled at me and said,
492
00:33:20,850 --> 00:33:24,382
"When the shots start, fear disappears".
493
00:33:37,850 --> 00:33:39,593
Are you a spy, or what?
494
00:33:39,725 --> 00:33:42,261
Relax Carlota, he's our friend!
495
00:33:44,975 --> 00:33:45,592
Thank you.
496
00:33:46,308 --> 00:33:46,890
For what?
497
00:33:48,433 --> 00:33:50,377
You made Daddy Cool help Farrusco.
498
00:33:50,892 --> 00:33:51,425
Do you know him?
499
00:33:52,058 --> 00:33:53,718
Everybody knows Farrusco.
500
00:33:54,683 --> 00:33:56,378
The Portuguese who changed sides.
501
00:33:56,892 --> 00:33:59,677
He is everything the MPLA stands for.
502
00:34:01,017 --> 00:34:03,494
He took Lubango with very few men.
503
00:34:03,933 --> 00:34:05,427
He captured Pereira d'Eça.
504
00:34:06,392 --> 00:34:09,959
He fired mortars himself, no base!
505
00:34:10,683 --> 00:34:14,487
He held them in his hands, burning from hot barrels.
506
00:34:14,517 --> 00:34:17,456
Blisters and sores everywhere!
507
00:34:22,433 --> 00:34:23,548
He's a great man.
508
00:34:24,558 --> 00:34:26,301
He taught us how to fight.
509
00:34:27,058 --> 00:34:29,749
He will see us to victory.
510
00:34:32,558 --> 00:34:34,751
It is an honor to fight beside him.
511
00:34:35,142 --> 00:34:36,671
When did you join the MPLA?
512
00:34:37,433 --> 00:34:39,377
I've always been in the MPLA.
513
00:34:40,392 --> 00:34:40,795
Of course
514
00:34:42,225 --> 00:34:43,091
I love my country.
515
00:34:43,683 --> 00:34:44,620
Do you not love yours?
516
00:34:45,517 --> 00:34:46,892
Yes, of course, I do.
517
00:34:47,392 --> 00:34:48,767
Do you have war in your country?
518
00:34:49,808 --> 00:34:50,496
There were some.
519
00:34:51,350 --> 00:34:51,967
In the past.
520
00:34:52,267 --> 00:34:52,919
Terrible ones.
521
00:34:54,517 --> 00:34:57,337
I remember better the beginning
of the war than the end.
522
00:34:58,058 --> 00:34:58,616
You fought?
523
00:34:58,642 --> 00:35:02,209
No, no, I was a child, and children didn't fight...
524
00:35:02,475 --> 00:35:02,807
then.
525
00:35:14,392 --> 00:35:15,767
What's that grandfather?
526
00:35:15,850 --> 00:35:17,628
Remember this day, Rysiek.
527
00:35:18,308 --> 00:35:19,553
Remember.
528
00:35:20,142 --> 00:35:21,007
Remember...
529
00:35:22,517 --> 00:35:25,124
For a long time I thought this was the world.
530
00:35:26,183 --> 00:35:27,333
This is how it looks.
531
00:35:28,225 --> 00:35:29,375
What life is like.
532
00:35:30,933 --> 00:35:31,929
But it stopped?
533
00:35:32,475 --> 00:35:32,807
What?
534
00:35:34,225 --> 00:35:34,806
Your war.
535
00:35:34,933 --> 00:35:35,515
Ah...
536
00:35:36,225 --> 00:35:38,098
yes, many years ago, yes
537
00:35:40,267 --> 00:35:41,642
But when you've lived through war,
538
00:35:41,683 --> 00:35:43,094
you can never be free of it.
539
00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:44,307
Ah...
540
00:35:44,558 --> 00:35:45,056
I don't know...
541
00:35:47,392 --> 00:35:48,672
So why you come here?
542
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,544
I tried many different jobs, but...
543
00:35:52,808 --> 00:35:54,693
war was my first understanding of the world.
544
00:35:54,725 --> 00:35:55,472
Aaah... shit.
545
00:36:05,933 --> 00:36:10,722
First, the vision. Then, the smell.
546
00:36:10,975 --> 00:36:13,725
We saw corpses
547
00:36:14,350 --> 00:36:16,543
of soldiers and guerrillas.
548
00:36:17,392 --> 00:36:22,595
They were about to burst, they were all swollen.
549
00:36:26,975 --> 00:36:31,017
Carlota said that could cause a plague,
550
00:36:31,725 --> 00:36:36,371
that it was dangerous for the health of the children
551
00:36:36,558 --> 00:36:39,664
who were playing nearby.
552
00:36:44,267 --> 00:36:46,874
Kapuscinski also helped
553
00:36:47,183 --> 00:36:51,593
to spray the bodies with petrol.
554
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,378
Then Carlota,
555
00:36:54,850 --> 00:36:59,579
with her machine gun and Commander Toni
556
00:36:59,767 --> 00:37:04,591
fired to set them on fire.
557
00:37:35,892 --> 00:37:36,887
Poland is...
558
00:37:37,850 --> 00:37:38,502
in Europe?
559
00:37:41,017 --> 00:37:41,266
Yes,
560
00:37:42,058 --> 00:37:42,307
yes.
561
00:37:43,308 --> 00:37:43,676
In Europe.
562
00:37:45,183 --> 00:37:46,333
So you miss your home?
563
00:37:48,308 --> 00:37:49,304
Of course I do.
564
00:37:51,267 --> 00:37:52,298
But when I'm there...
565
00:37:53,892 --> 00:37:55,207
I miss Africa more.
566
00:37:57,058 --> 00:37:57,805
What about you?
567
00:37:59,267 --> 00:37:59,599
Hmm?
568
00:38:00,975 --> 00:38:01,971
When the war is over.
569
00:38:03,058 --> 00:38:04,090
With the MPLA,
570
00:38:04,433 --> 00:38:05,714
Angola will be free.
571
00:38:07,308 --> 00:38:08,624
And then, you will see.
572
00:38:09,558 --> 00:38:11,751
Children will go to school, and be healthy...
573
00:38:12,642 --> 00:38:13,673
And I will be here,
574
00:38:15,350 --> 00:38:16,974
working for my country.
575
00:38:17,017 --> 00:38:17,704
Oh yes?
576
00:38:18,308 --> 00:38:19,304
What will you do?
577
00:38:19,892 --> 00:38:21,551
I trained to be a nurse.
578
00:38:23,392 --> 00:38:24,707
Many people to help.
579
00:38:24,767 --> 00:38:27,766
You were really good with that guy yesterday, really.
580
00:38:28,517 --> 00:38:29,761
A surgeon maybe?
581
00:38:30,558 --> 00:38:31,140
Maybe.
582
00:38:31,892 --> 00:38:32,544
But you know?
583
00:38:33,850 --> 00:38:34,668
Sometimes,
584
00:38:35,267 --> 00:38:37,424
I faint when I see blood...
585
00:38:40,725 --> 00:38:43,167
Ricardo, in two months, I will be twenty.
586
00:38:43,683 --> 00:38:44,928
I want my own children.
587
00:38:46,767 --> 00:38:48,426
. But first we have to win this war.
588
00:38:53,933 --> 00:38:56,541
Maybe one day I will read about myself, huh?
589
00:38:57,142 --> 00:38:57,794
I hope so.
590
00:38:59,142 --> 00:38:59,640
I'm sure.
591
00:39:03,558 --> 00:39:05,372
Make sure they won't forget us.
592
00:39:07,558 --> 00:39:08,554
You have my word.
593
00:39:22,433 --> 00:39:25,005
Carlota,
the enemy waits in the forest next to Balombo.
594
00:39:25,267 --> 00:39:26,298
Okay. Give me a minute.
595
00:39:29,350 --> 00:39:30,002
We're aborting.
596
00:39:30,142 --> 00:39:30,758
What?
597
00:39:33,017 --> 00:39:34,546
We'll resume our mission tomorrow.
598
00:39:35,225 --> 00:39:37,003
Carlos, take them back to Benguela.
599
00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:38,131
Yes, ma'am!
600
00:39:38,183 --> 00:39:38,622
Why?
601
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,343
No, Carlota, stay with us!
602
00:39:41,642 --> 00:39:45,873
We'll have dinner tonight
and tomorrow we can go together to Lisbon, huh?
603
00:39:45,933 --> 00:39:47,214
Why! Please, Carlota!
604
00:39:48,642 --> 00:39:49,637
Go!
605
00:39:49,683 --> 00:39:50,466
Right now!
606
00:40:11,558 --> 00:40:15,849
Silence took over us
607
00:40:16,017 --> 00:40:19,016
when the car started.
608
00:40:20,892 --> 00:40:23,997
We were afraid of what could happen
609
00:40:24,225 --> 00:40:26,631
because it was a battlefront.
610
00:40:26,808 --> 00:40:31,597
There were thick dark clouds in the night sky.
611
00:40:56,225 --> 00:40:57,292
Mmm. . . telex from Warsaw...
612
00:41:10,850 --> 00:41:13,292
You're not going anywhere, Polish.
613
00:41:18,433 --> 00:41:19,299
No escort.
614
00:41:20,933 --> 00:41:22,214
There was an attack.
615
00:41:24,142 --> 00:41:25,386
Everybody's dead.
616
00:41:26,725 --> 00:41:27,223
Carlota?
617
00:41:27,892 --> 00:41:28,887
Like I said,
618
00:41:29,892 --> 00:41:30,639
everybody.
619
00:41:43,558 --> 00:41:46,474
You want my best soldier...
620
00:41:47,183 --> 00:41:48,120
She saved my life.
621
00:41:49,183 --> 00:41:51,791
You like Carlota, huh?
622
00:41:56,267 --> 00:42:00,747
The victories of the revolutionary war
come at a high price:
623
00:42:01,642 --> 00:42:02,827
Camarada Carlota,
624
00:42:03,267 --> 00:42:06,585
who we had just interviewed at the Balombo's front.
625
00:42:07,392 --> 00:42:11,173
Less than 24 hours later, Carlota dropped dead.
626
00:42:12,017 --> 00:42:13,711
Kapuscinski said,
627
00:42:13,892 --> 00:42:18,621
"We should have insisted until the end".
628
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,705
Guilt feelings increased.
629
00:42:23,392 --> 00:42:25,265
Kapuscinski cried,
630
00:42:25,475 --> 00:42:29,457
I had already cried at the hotel.
631
00:42:29,975 --> 00:42:31,954
And I said to Kapuscinski,
632
00:42:32,183 --> 00:42:37,007
"Carlota has died, they're going to lose the war".
633
00:42:37,225 --> 00:42:41,670
And Kapuscinski replied, "Morally, I think so".
634
00:42:45,058 --> 00:42:46,374
Where are you going Ricardo?
635
00:42:46,975 --> 00:42:48,350
No, please, stay.
636
00:42:48,517 --> 00:42:49,512
This is not our fault.
637
00:42:50,267 --> 00:42:51,772
We are just reporters,
638
00:42:51,808 --> 00:42:53,752
there was nothing we could do...
639
00:42:54,558 --> 00:42:56,182
Listen to me Ricardo!
640
00:42:58,517 --> 00:43:03,495
I still miss her.
641
00:43:11,017 --> 00:43:11,953
Wake up, Carlos.
642
00:43:12,225 --> 00:43:13,541
Take me to Farrusco.
643
00:44:08,933 --> 00:44:10,344
So why you come here?
644
00:44:13,100 --> 00:44:14,973
No, no, no, no!
645
00:44:22,433 --> 00:44:23,998
You two sons of bitches up now!
646
00:44:30,058 --> 00:44:31,552
What the fuck are you doing here.
647
00:44:35,683 --> 00:44:36,798
Please, Ricardo,
648
00:44:37,225 --> 00:44:38,410
go back to Poland...
649
00:44:42,558 --> 00:44:42,807
Go!
650
00:44:43,433 --> 00:44:44,216
Right now!
651
00:45:05,933 --> 00:45:07,996
The struggle continues!
652
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,579
Victory is certain!
653
00:45:12,558 --> 00:45:13,673
Ricardo wake up!
654
00:45:14,058 --> 00:45:14,640
Wake up!
655
00:45:15,225 --> 00:45:16,884
Wake up Ricardo!
656
00:45:17,892 --> 00:45:18,923
You wanna live?
657
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:20,382
Then shoot!
658
00:45:33,225 --> 00:45:35,204
Yeah! We did it!
659
00:45:37,183 --> 00:45:38,298
I told you.
660
00:45:38,433 --> 00:45:39,216
I know him!
661
00:45:39,475 --> 00:45:40,921
He opens the door!
662
00:45:43,892 --> 00:45:44,923
He's my friend...
663
00:45:55,725 --> 00:45:56,661
Commandante!
664
00:46:00,350 --> 00:46:01,037
Ammunition?
665
00:46:01,392 --> 00:46:04,461
So, it's... it's not that bad, yeah?
666
00:46:05,308 --> 00:46:08,971
Look, I've got you two cans of gas and...
667
00:46:09,017 --> 00:46:10,202
seven rounds of ammo
668
00:46:10,767 --> 00:46:11,798
I mean...
669
00:46:12,017 --> 00:46:13,996
I mean no ammo, but...
670
00:46:14,350 --> 00:46:16,223
but I got flour, and...
671
00:46:17,475 --> 00:46:18,720
and a reporter!
672
00:46:19,183 --> 00:46:20,961
Yeah! He's from Poland!
673
00:46:21,017 --> 00:46:22,167
Ryszard Kapuscinski, from the Polish Press Agency.
674
00:46:22,225 --> 00:46:23,340
: I need ammo...
675
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:25,287
vehicles...
676
00:46:27,267 --> 00:46:28,168
supplies...
677
00:46:29,642 --> 00:46:30,459
soldiers...
678
00:46:32,767 --> 00:46:34,212
and you bring me...
679
00:46:38,142 --> 00:46:39,801
a fucking reporter.
680
00:46:42,642 --> 00:46:44,585
What the fuck are you doing here, reporter?
681
00:47:01,725 --> 00:47:02,840
You want an interview?
682
00:47:04,350 --> 00:47:04,883
So...
683
00:47:06,850 --> 00:47:08,035
ask me something.
684
00:47:08,142 --> 00:47:08,509
Now?
685
00:47:10,350 --> 00:47:12,886
Yes, now.
before those motherfuckers start shooting again.
686
00:47:15,933 --> 00:47:16,515
So...
687
00:47:18,558 --> 00:47:19,175
you are a...
688
00:47:20,392 --> 00:47:21,044
hero...
689
00:47:21,350 --> 00:47:21,753
a...
690
00:47:22,558 --> 00:47:23,424
face of the cause.
691
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:24,845
What cause?
692
00:47:26,308 --> 00:47:28,252
Can you load the cause into a pistol?
693
00:47:28,850 --> 00:47:29,751
Next question.
694
00:47:32,433 --> 00:47:33,429
Next question.
695
00:47:34,392 --> 00:47:36,549
How have you held the southern front for this long?
696
00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:40,036
You see these lines
697
00:47:41,558 --> 00:47:42,341
on the floor?
698
00:47:44,933 --> 00:47:46,711
They're the nearest you get to the front.
699
00:47:47,183 --> 00:47:49,471
Stray over them and the sniper's bullet is yours.
700
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,259
Bom dia!
701
00:47:52,308 --> 00:47:55,165
Paozinho quente de Maria...
702
00:47:55,267 --> 00:47:56,381
And what about...
703
00:47:57,683 --> 00:47:58,335
South Africa.
704
00:47:58,475 --> 00:47:59,471
They want Luanda.
705
00:47:59,975 --> 00:48:00,841
What do you mean?
706
00:48:01,017 --> 00:48:03,387
I mean they have their tanks
707
00:48:04,267 --> 00:48:05,168
armored cars,
708
00:48:05,975 --> 00:48:08,452
their fucking CIA dollars and...
709
00:48:09,975 --> 00:48:11,042
they're on the border.
710
00:48:11,392 --> 00:48:12,707
So they're already here?
711
00:48:13,350 --> 00:48:14,595
It's just a hundred kilometers.
712
00:48:14,725 --> 00:48:16,787
And we're the only ones who stand in their way.
713
00:48:18,058 --> 00:48:19,244
You know how many of us there are?
714
00:48:19,808 --> 00:48:20,555
Fifty,
715
00:48:21,433 --> 00:48:22,216
last count.
716
00:48:23,767 --> 00:48:24,383
Write this:
717
00:48:26,850 --> 00:48:29,292
"We're a detachment condemned to extermination".
718
00:48:32,433 --> 00:48:33,998
You got to see something? Come.
719
00:48:40,558 --> 00:48:41,495
Bom dia.
720
00:48:41,933 --> 00:48:43,676
Um paozinho quente...
721
00:48:44,100 --> 00:48:45,131
muito bem.
722
00:48:45,183 --> 00:48:46,298
Eighty-one years old.
723
00:48:46,892 --> 00:48:47,508
She bakes bread.
724
00:48:49,267 --> 00:48:51,080
For over sixty years she bakes bread.
725
00:48:52,225 --> 00:48:53,340
And she refuses to leave.
726
00:48:55,642 --> 00:48:56,223
We love that woman
727
00:48:56,267 --> 00:48:58,210
She's not for us, not for them.
728
00:49:00,183 --> 00:49:00,835
She's... for life.
729
00:49:01,183 --> 00:49:02,250
Life and bread.
730
00:49:04,142 --> 00:49:04,758
That's enough.
731
00:49:05,392 --> 00:49:07,086
More than enough.
732
00:49:09,308 --> 00:49:11,252
You've had your last press conference, my friend.
733
00:49:11,683 --> 00:49:12,928
I hope you got what you wanted.
734
00:49:14,975 --> 00:49:15,911
Welcome to your grave.
735
00:49:39,558 --> 00:49:40,933
Why did you change sides?
736
00:49:48,517 --> 00:49:49,631
They shipped us in,
737
00:49:50,767 --> 00:49:53,173
elite Portuguese paratroopers.
738
00:49:55,350 --> 00:49:58,550
And they showed us these boys,
739
00:49:59,433 --> 00:50:00,548
these twelve years old boys...
740
00:50:04,975 --> 00:50:07,203
they were the enemy we
were supposed to be fighting with.
741
00:50:08,683 --> 00:50:09,963
Twelve years old boys.
742
00:50:12,517 --> 00:50:13,512
That's not me.
743
00:50:18,267 --> 00:50:19,677
But then look at me now.
744
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:22,217
Look...
745
00:50:22,642 --> 00:50:23,708
at my soldiers.
746
00:50:25,517 --> 00:50:27,211
Boys will die anyway so...
747
00:50:29,517 --> 00:50:31,295
here I am again.
748
00:50:34,808 --> 00:50:36,183
Confuçao.
749
00:50:38,767 --> 00:50:40,924
I have a son born to me in Lubango.
750
00:50:44,058 --> 00:50:45,338
Big strong boy, they tell me.
751
00:50:46,892 --> 00:50:49,120
Make his papa proud.
752
00:50:54,142 --> 00:50:55,208
I haven't seen him.
753
00:50:55,892 --> 00:50:57,456
Probably won't either but...
754
00:51:00,475 --> 00:51:01,506
You know, Polish?
755
00:51:03,892 --> 00:51:05,042
I'm not afraid of death.
756
00:51:06,767 --> 00:51:08,047
I don't feel any fear.
757
00:51:40,183 --> 00:51:42,495
Joaquim António Lopes Farrusco.
758
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,662
I was born in Portugal.
759
00:51:49,767 --> 00:51:51,710
The first image I have
760
00:51:51,892 --> 00:51:55,838
is the one that changed my life.
761
00:51:56,017 --> 00:51:57,996
I remember it as if it was today.
762
00:52:00,017 --> 00:52:02,328
It was a small child,
763
00:52:02,517 --> 00:52:06,179
with very ripped, very old, very dirty clothes.
764
00:52:07,183 --> 00:52:10,348
He shouted, "Give me a coin! Give me bread!"
765
00:52:11,017 --> 00:52:13,956
I got sad and I said to myself,
766
00:52:15,433 --> 00:52:19,250
"Here they're in the same situation
I was in my country".
767
00:52:19,392 --> 00:52:22,461
That barefoot boy reminded me
768
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,508
of my adolescence.
769
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,006
I didn't come to defend anyone,
770
00:52:29,517 --> 00:52:31,638
I probably came to oppress, right?
771
00:52:32,808 --> 00:52:35,215
I was a commando, from the special forces.
772
00:52:36,892 --> 00:52:38,930
I was 24.
773
00:52:39,183 --> 00:52:42,632
It wasn't very difficult for me
774
00:52:43,100 --> 00:52:45,921
to take a single side:
775
00:52:46,517 --> 00:52:50,997
the side of the most disadvantaged.
776
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,919
It was very difficult to survive in that front.
777
00:52:56,100 --> 00:52:57,594
A very broad front.
778
00:52:59,517 --> 00:53:02,835
I had nothing except a handful of guerrillas
779
00:53:03,017 --> 00:53:08,255
and the good will of MPLA's supporters, the people.
780
00:53:12,392 --> 00:53:16,967
Kapuscinski talked to me for a few hours.
781
00:53:17,183 --> 00:53:21,794
And we talked about my son who, by life's paradoxes,
782
00:53:22,725 --> 00:53:26,837
ended up being killed by UNITA.
783
00:53:27,392 --> 00:53:32,595
He was simply killed because I'm General Farrusco,
784
00:53:32,767 --> 00:53:35,338
and they knew who General Farrusco was.
785
00:53:37,267 --> 00:53:38,381
It was revenge.
786
00:53:40,933 --> 00:53:44,003
Many parents lost their children.
787
00:53:45,558 --> 00:53:47,253
I wasn't the only one.
788
00:53:58,683 --> 00:53:59,620
Lean right!
789
00:54:01,850 --> 00:54:02,668
Head back!
790
00:54:06,017 --> 00:54:07,083
Head forwards!
791
00:54:08,350 --> 00:54:08,848
Stretch!
792
00:54:11,183 --> 00:54:12,084
And squats.
793
00:54:14,558 --> 00:54:15,495
And more.
794
00:54:17,183 --> 00:54:18,499
C'mon it's not the fucking weekend!
795
00:54:18,558 --> 00:54:19,969
Move it!
796
00:54:20,142 --> 00:54:21,043
Lads faster!
797
00:54:21,850 --> 00:54:23,035
And jumping jacks.
798
00:54:24,892 --> 00:54:26,207
Another day of life, Polish.
799
00:54:28,017 --> 00:54:28,455
Hey!
800
00:54:30,850 --> 00:54:32,130
Did I tell you to stop?
801
00:54:33,392 --> 00:54:35,051
Move it. Squats now.
802
00:54:35,767 --> 00:54:37,177
C'mon, look alive!
803
00:54:37,767 --> 00:54:38,348
They moved.
804
00:54:39,350 --> 00:54:40,168
South Africans?
805
00:54:40,933 --> 00:54:41,965
They were spotted this morning.
806
00:54:42,017 --> 00:54:43,167
They're crossing the border right now.
807
00:54:43,808 --> 00:54:44,875
Then Luanda needs to know.
808
00:54:44,933 --> 00:54:46,000
That's what you gonna do.
809
00:54:46,892 --> 00:54:47,733
Okay, but how?
810
00:54:47,767 --> 00:54:48,762
You will go with Carlos.
811
00:54:49,183 --> 00:54:50,878
They're slow, they've got tanks,
812
00:54:50,975 --> 00:54:53,760
armored carriers, heavy artillery,
columns of heavy stuff.
813
00:54:54,267 --> 00:54:57,799
You go there now and we have
at least a couple of days of advantage.
814
00:54:57,975 --> 00:54:58,307
Okay.
815
00:54:59,433 --> 00:55:03,285
Tell them:
I need reinforcements, ammunition, mortars.
816
00:55:03,350 --> 00:55:04,168
You hear me?
817
00:55:04,350 --> 00:55:04,682
Yeah.
818
00:55:04,933 --> 00:55:06,593
Carlos, how much time do you need?
819
00:55:08,058 --> 00:55:08,640
Two hours.
820
00:55:08,683 --> 00:55:09,217
Make it one.
821
00:55:09,725 --> 00:55:10,377
Have a look.
822
00:55:10,975 --> 00:55:11,793
Lubango is here,
823
00:55:12,767 --> 00:55:14,142
it's 400 kilometers,
824
00:55:14,267 --> 00:55:15,452
plus 350,
825
00:55:15,767 --> 00:55:18,078
and you should reach Benguela by this time tomorrow.
826
00:55:21,350 --> 00:55:21,967
Silence!
827
00:55:26,933 --> 00:55:27,965
Silence!
828
00:55:37,933 --> 00:55:39,676
This is way too fucking soon!
829
00:55:41,225 --> 00:55:43,347
The South African Army is on the move. Surrender now.
830
00:55:43,392 --> 00:55:44,387
Change of plan. You go now!
831
00:55:44,808 --> 00:55:45,875
But the car is not ready Commandante!
832
00:55:45,933 --> 00:55:46,751
To the positions!
833
00:55:46,808 --> 00:55:47,555
Behind the wall!
834
00:55:47,642 --> 00:55:48,258
To the roof!
835
00:55:48,558 --> 00:55:50,443
C'mon boys, it's not the fucking weekend.
836
00:55:50,475 --> 00:55:51,720
Ricardo! Get into the fucking car man!
837
00:55:51,767 --> 00:55:52,798
We are here to free Angola.
838
00:55:52,850 --> 00:55:53,751
Start the car. C'mon!
839
00:55:53,808 --> 00:55:54,626
C'mon Carlos!
840
00:55:54,725 --> 00:55:55,591
To Luanda Carlos.
841
00:55:55,933 --> 00:55:56,929
: Oh, shit.
842
00:55:57,183 --> 00:55:58,369
We have gas? We have enough gas?
843
00:56:00,267 --> 00:56:01,013
C'mon Carlos!
844
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:11,329
Any resistance, I repeat, is futile. Surrender now.
845
00:56:12,308 --> 00:56:13,837
We are here to free Angola.
846
00:56:13,892 --> 00:56:14,544
Fucking South Africans!
847
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:15,916
Resistance is futile.
848
00:56:16,558 --> 00:56:17,341
Get inside!
849
00:56:17,975 --> 00:56:19,753
Get back! Get inside!
850
00:56:19,808 --> 00:56:21,468
The South African Army is on the move.
851
00:56:22,183 --> 00:56:24,590
Surrender now. Now.
852
00:56:26,267 --> 00:56:29,751
I'm heading there, with the AK, fighting.
853
00:56:31,517 --> 00:56:36,162
I think,
"Well, here I have a few minutes left, let's...
854
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,473
...let's fight to death with those guys".
855
00:56:44,183 --> 00:56:45,594
I'm already dead.
856
00:57:14,225 --> 00:57:18,634
The stream of blood was huge.
I heard, but I couldn't see.
857
00:57:20,017 --> 00:57:21,996
And my unconscious told me,
858
00:57:22,225 --> 00:57:25,544
"Careful, calm down, there's no problem,
all will be fine".
859
00:57:26,100 --> 00:57:29,016
There was a second voice inside me that gave me...
860
00:57:30,183 --> 00:57:30,835
...some life.
861
00:57:31,350 --> 00:57:34,384
When the South Africans arrived, I got stuck there.
862
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,848
In the hospital.
863
00:57:41,017 --> 00:57:42,960
It was an unequal fight.
864
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:47,203
The South African artillery,
the South African amour,
865
00:57:47,392 --> 00:57:49,265
the helicopters' machine guns...
866
00:57:49,475 --> 00:57:52,545
And even so, they resisted fighting for four hours.
867
00:57:53,892 --> 00:57:56,642
Nearly all of those who resisted there died.
868
00:57:58,100 --> 00:58:00,577
It was a massacre. That was a massacre.
869
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:05,677
Kapuscinski left Luanda to come and
see what was happening.
870
00:58:06,058 --> 00:58:08,974
To tell the world that South African forces
871
00:58:09,058 --> 00:58:11,370
were invading the Angolan territory.
872
00:58:11,725 --> 00:58:13,538
The world denied it.
873
00:58:15,017 --> 00:58:16,960
I think this was his mission.
874
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,705
A mission that led him to me, to the south of Angola.
875
00:58:28,392 --> 00:58:30,584
A green soldier fears everything.
876
00:58:32,892 --> 00:58:34,136
He shoots anywhere,
877
00:58:34,767 --> 00:58:36,746
just so long as he can shoot.
878
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:39,129
He has an important battle to win:
879
00:58:40,142 --> 00:58:41,955
the war with his own fear.
880
00:58:42,933 --> 00:58:44,842
He is killing his own terror.
881
00:59:33,225 --> 00:59:34,340
Tell him he has to call me.
882
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:35,181
Hold on.
883
00:59:35,267 --> 00:59:35,599
Yeah.
884
00:59:42,517 --> 00:59:43,548
Obrigado Carlos.
885
00:59:44,642 --> 00:59:46,017
Son of a bitch...
886
00:59:46,392 --> 00:59:47,672
Ricardo!
887
00:59:49,392 --> 00:59:52,391
Ricardo my friend!
888
00:59:53,350 --> 00:59:54,216
Oh...
889
00:59:54,267 --> 00:59:55,961
I didn't think I'd ever see you again!
890
00:59:56,392 --> 00:59:57,293
My friend!
891
00:59:57,433 --> 00:59:58,678
You look like shit.
892
00:59:59,183 --> 01:00:00,677
And I feel like shit.
893
01:00:00,933 --> 01:00:02,119
What's been happening?
894
01:00:03,183 --> 01:00:04,463
South Africa is happening.
895
01:00:06,183 --> 01:00:06,586
What?
896
01:00:07,683 --> 01:00:08,679
They are here?
897
01:00:09,100 --> 01:00:09,882
They're south.
898
01:00:11,767 --> 01:00:15,015
It was a rather distressing conversation
899
01:00:16,767 --> 01:00:20,500
because that day, we knew we were going to lose.
900
01:00:21,100 --> 01:00:24,016
We were living the last days of our lives.
901
01:00:24,975 --> 01:00:27,262
Because they were going to get in shortly.
902
01:00:28,683 --> 01:00:31,160
As soon as I told him to leave,
903
01:00:31,392 --> 01:00:33,265
he replied, "No, I'll stay with you,
904
01:00:33,475 --> 01:00:37,327
because I don't intend to yield on my place
by an invading army.
905
01:00:37,850 --> 01:00:39,379
This is my mission.
906
01:00:40,017 --> 01:00:44,248
I'll stay with you and I'll send my last news...
907
01:00:44,808 --> 01:00:46,373
That's what he said to me.
908
01:00:49,642 --> 01:00:50,792
I need to see Nelson.
909
01:00:51,475 --> 01:00:51,843
No.
910
01:00:52,767 --> 01:00:54,331
Things have changed.
911
01:00:54,642 --> 01:00:56,420
You need to see the Cubans.
912
01:00:59,975 --> 01:01:02,262
Listen, the southern front no longer exists.
913
01:01:03,017 --> 01:01:04,581
The South Africans are here.
914
01:01:04,767 --> 01:01:06,675
They took Pereira d'Eca yesterday morning.
915
01:01:06,725 --> 01:01:08,254
I was there with Farrusco.
916
01:01:09,725 --> 01:01:12,297
It's not just soldiers, it's a regular army.
917
01:01:12,892 --> 01:01:13,709
Two battalions,
918
01:01:14,142 --> 01:01:14,580
tanks,
919
01:01:15,017 --> 01:01:16,083
armored carriers,
920
01:01:16,433 --> 01:01:17,216
artillery,
921
01:01:17,350 --> 01:01:18,535
they have American support!
922
01:01:19,350 --> 01:01:20,417
Llama al jefe.
923
01:01:22,850 --> 01:01:24,225
So what are you going to do now?
924
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:28,667
Are you telling Russia?
925
01:01:31,725 --> 01:01:33,598
Russia won't support Cuba.
926
01:01:35,517 --> 01:01:37,259
So Cuba will go in alone?
927
01:01:39,100 --> 01:01:40,215
Thank you Ricardo,
928
01:01:40,475 --> 01:01:41,471
we are not here
929
01:01:41,808 --> 01:01:42,804
You understand...
930
01:01:52,725 --> 01:01:55,830
The CIA, yes, the CIA organized everything.
931
01:01:56,517 --> 01:01:57,962
The CIA against Angola.
932
01:01:58,725 --> 01:02:03,798
South African troops invaded Southern Angola,
the central plateau.
933
01:02:04,517 --> 01:02:08,250
They took Benguela, Lobito and continued.
934
01:02:08,767 --> 01:02:10,805
We ere besieged in Luanda.
935
01:02:11,350 --> 01:02:15,795
Ricardo always said,
"It's racism spreaded all around Africa".
936
01:02:16,725 --> 01:02:22,391
If these guys win,
we're going to have an apartheid all over Africa".
937
01:02:22,558 --> 01:02:23,838
That's what he thought.
938
01:02:25,892 --> 01:02:29,246
The MPLA was alone, MPLA forces were alone.
939
01:02:29,850 --> 01:02:31,663
Soviets abandoned us.
940
01:02:32,850 --> 01:02:36,797
The Camarada President had to ask for help to Cuba.
941
01:02:37,183 --> 01:02:41,723
And Camarada Fidel didn't hesitate.
he didn't wait for Kremlin's orders.
942
01:02:43,183 --> 01:02:44,843
All men to the front!
943
01:02:45,017 --> 01:02:46,581
All women to the front!
944
01:02:47,058 --> 01:02:49,286
Your country needs you camaradas!
945
01:02:49,558 --> 01:02:51,621
Fight for the future of Angola!
946
01:02:52,100 --> 01:02:55,419
Only four more days for independence camaradas!
947
01:02:56,267 --> 01:02:57,926
This is Cold War, Artur.
948
01:03:01,642 --> 01:03:04,498
Forget about decolonization and independence.
949
01:03:06,058 --> 01:03:08,666
This, now, is Cold War.
950
01:03:10,725 --> 01:03:12,787
And the Cold War never ends.
951
01:03:18,850 --> 01:03:20,379
And I will have played my part
952
01:03:21,392 --> 01:03:24,675
Ricardo.
all you did was tell the Cubans what you saw.
953
01:03:25,517 --> 01:03:27,046
. Is that your agency?
954
01:03:27,517 --> 01:03:28,927
What are you going to report?
955
01:03:28,975 --> 01:03:32,673
Artur, we are the only journalists
in the world with this information,
956
01:03:33,017 --> 01:03:34,581
Cuba getting involved like this
957
01:03:34,892 --> 01:03:36,421
I have to give them something.
958
01:03:56,475 --> 01:04:00,256
We were certain that either
959
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:07,087
we won the battle of information
or they would destroy us.
960
01:04:07,267 --> 01:04:09,246
And the MPLA would never take power.
961
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:20,291
Ricardo, if you make Cuba public...
962
01:04:20,433 --> 01:04:21,216
Yes, I know.
963
01:04:23,058 --> 01:04:24,753
It will change the course of events.
964
01:04:25,433 --> 01:04:26,465
Changed the c...?
965
01:04:29,183 --> 01:04:31,874
The CIA will intercept your telex,
966
01:04:32,517 --> 01:04:36,712
and then America will want to do a whole lot more
than just back South Africa!
967
01:04:38,142 --> 01:04:40,548
They will erase Angola from the map!
968
01:04:42,225 --> 01:04:45,081
This is not about Cold War Ricardo!
969
01:04:45,183 --> 01:04:46,878
This is about lives!
970
01:04:58,350 --> 01:05:00,329
The future of Angola, my friend.
971
01:05:03,725 --> 01:05:09,212
He, knowing that it was a large-scale operation,
972
01:05:11,267 --> 01:05:17,596
had doubts about whether
he should send the telex or not.
973
01:05:18,100 --> 01:05:23,338
We were reporters and we gave our lives for our job.
974
01:05:28,017 --> 01:05:31,217
Cuba mobilizing against South Africa is big.
975
01:05:31,933 --> 01:05:33,178
And I'm a reporter.
976
01:05:33,725 --> 01:05:35,254
I have a scoop here.
977
01:05:37,183 --> 01:05:40,383
We wait our whole lives for an opportunity like this.
978
01:06:00,558 --> 01:06:03,035
What draws a man out into the world?
979
01:06:03,808 --> 01:06:04,496
Curiosity?
980
01:06:05,683 --> 01:06:07,212
Hunger for experience?
981
01:06:08,975 --> 01:06:11,452
The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow,
982
01:06:11,683 --> 01:06:13,248
possessed of an extinguished heart.
983
01:06:13,433 --> 01:06:15,567
Excuse me, Professor, I've got a question for you.
984
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:15,932
Yes.
985
01:06:17,767 --> 01:06:21,216
Just by being there, you change everything.
Wouldn't you agree?
986
01:06:21,975 --> 01:06:22,757
Change what?
987
01:06:23,517 --> 01:06:24,050
Fate.
988
01:06:25,767 --> 01:06:27,805
The fate of an individual. Of a war
989
01:06:28,683 --> 01:06:29,963
Of an entire people.
990
01:06:30,725 --> 01:06:32,918
But if I wasn't there, the world wouldn't learn.
991
01:06:33,308 --> 01:06:36,307
But if you weren't there, the war would be different.
992
01:06:36,642 --> 01:06:38,550
Exchanges of fire might be shorter.
993
01:06:39,058 --> 01:06:40,244
People might not die.
994
01:06:41,392 --> 01:06:42,672
People die in war.
995
01:06:43,975 --> 01:06:46,642
It's important the world reads about it.
996
01:06:47,142 --> 01:06:48,884
You haven't answered my question.
997
01:06:59,267 --> 01:07:01,637
Certainly, Ricardo became
998
01:07:02,392 --> 01:07:07,595
a fighter of our cause, in his own way. Certainly.
999
01:07:21,392 --> 01:07:24,710
SEND
1000
01:07:47,850 --> 01:07:51,832
Kapuscinski and I went to the airport.
1001
01:07:52,392 --> 01:07:55,640
And when I saw those Cubans
and those weapons arriving
1002
01:07:55,808 --> 01:07:59,625
I thought we still had some chance of winning.
1003
01:08:02,225 --> 01:08:04,702
They're calling it Operation Carlota.
1004
01:08:05,558 --> 01:08:07,004
The Cuban offensive.
1005
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:11,417
Half the Cubans are descendants of Angolan slaves,
1006
01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:13,129
but you know the story of Carlota,
1007
01:08:13,933 --> 01:08:15,344
the Cuban slave girl?
1008
01:08:16,100 --> 01:08:20,509
She picked up a machete
and led a slave uprising in the 19th century.
1009
01:08:20,558 --> 01:08:23,557
She died fighting for liberation, Ricardo.
1010
01:08:24,433 --> 01:08:26,377
Operation Carlota.
1011
01:08:31,808 --> 01:08:34,285
Maybe one day I will read about myself, huh?
1012
01:08:39,225 --> 01:08:40,671
Yes. One day you will.
1013
01:08:43,975 --> 01:08:45,006
Surrender now.
1014
01:08:45,308 --> 01:08:46,719
Resistance is futile.
1015
01:08:48,017 --> 01:08:49,925
Thank you Ricardo, we are not here.
1016
01:09:08,808 --> 01:09:11,558
It's a special kind of oppressiveness we feel now.
1017
01:09:12,183 --> 01:09:13,463
Vice tightening.
1018
01:09:13,850 --> 01:09:16,161
A growing sense of danger and fear.
1019
01:09:16,808 --> 01:09:18,871
Because this is a lesson drawn from history.
1020
01:09:20,142 --> 01:09:21,173
That blood will flow
1021
01:09:22,142 --> 01:09:24,548
Crucial events cannot occur without it.
1022
01:09:25,433 --> 01:09:27,840
In Angola they have a word for this, remember?
1023
01:09:29,850 --> 01:09:30,881
Confuçao.
1024
01:09:31,350 --> 01:09:32,974
A state of anarchy and disorder.
1025
01:09:33,392 --> 01:09:35,833
Absolute disorientation.
1026
01:09:37,017 --> 01:09:40,798
We see it raging around us
but we can't do anything to stop it.
1027
01:09:41,392 --> 01:09:42,921
It can explode in a crowd
1028
01:09:43,433 --> 01:09:44,962
and sweep through a mass of people,
1029
01:09:45,433 --> 01:09:46,998
and then there is fighting,
1030
01:09:47,433 --> 01:09:48,180
and arson,
1031
01:09:48,767 --> 01:09:49,513
and death.
1032
01:09:50,808 --> 01:09:53,036
It can reign over an entire territory,
1033
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:54,880
sweep through millions...
1034
01:09:55,517 --> 01:09:56,098
And then...
1035
01:09:58,725 --> 01:09:59,756
there is war.
1036
01:10:18,683 --> 01:10:21,883
If the Soviet Union and Cuban military forces
1037
01:10:22,017 --> 01:10:24,873
continue actions such as Angola,
1038
01:10:25,017 --> 01:10:27,553
we will without any question resist.
1039
01:10:29,725 --> 01:10:32,202
Because they had everything planned
1040
01:10:32,392 --> 01:10:34,999
in order to take over Angola before November 11th.
1041
01:10:35,267 --> 01:10:39,747
We're not looking for oil,
diamonds or any material interest.
1042
01:10:39,933 --> 01:10:43,785
We're fulfilling an elementary internationalist duty
1043
01:10:43,975 --> 01:10:46,097
when we're helping the people of Angola.
1044
01:10:51,017 --> 01:10:56,682
The Central Committee of the MPLA
1045
01:10:56,850 --> 01:11:00,667
solemnly proclaims
1046
01:11:02,183 --> 01:11:07,007
before Africa and the whole world.
the independence of Angola.
1047
01:11:12,350 --> 01:11:14,258
It was the happiest day of my life.
1048
01:11:14,642 --> 01:11:16,953
This Africa being born in Angola
1049
01:11:17,267 --> 01:11:20,206
was an Africa without neocolonialism,
1050
01:11:20,392 --> 01:11:24,682
the Africa of a complete and authentic liberation.
1051
01:11:25,725 --> 01:11:31,082
Kapuscinski and I went to have a drink
of Carta Blanca rum
1052
01:11:31,725 --> 01:11:34,096
to celebrate it. A small celebration.
1053
01:11:34,808 --> 01:11:35,994
We hugged.
1054
01:11:36,725 --> 01:11:38,598
We were very happy.
1055
01:11:38,767 --> 01:11:44,254
Victory is certain! Victory is certain!
1056
01:11:45,558 --> 01:11:46,708
The war has changed.
1057
01:11:49,392 --> 01:11:50,885
It's no longer a Civil war.
1058
01:11:51,308 --> 01:11:53,051
It's now an international conflict.
1059
01:11:53,767 --> 01:11:55,260
And it will last for years.
1060
01:11:56,933 --> 01:11:58,593
My money run out long time ago.
1061
01:11:59,850 --> 01:12:01,130
I'm on my last legs,
1062
01:12:02,058 --> 01:12:03,303
I'm barely alive...
1063
01:12:04,225 --> 01:12:06,098
I ask you to give me permission to return home.
1064
01:12:07,058 --> 01:12:09,749
Good times are ahead, my friend.
1065
01:12:10,017 --> 01:12:11,996
I sincerely hope so, Artur.
1066
01:12:15,225 --> 01:12:16,505
What's the matter, Ricardo?
1067
01:12:16,892 --> 01:12:17,544
Pasaporte.
1068
01:12:18,350 --> 01:12:20,827
C'mon, my friend, I know that face.
1069
01:12:21,183 --> 01:12:22,001
What's the matter?
1070
01:12:22,267 --> 01:12:23,381
I had these students...
1071
01:12:23,808 --> 01:12:25,053
asking me about the...
1072
01:12:25,892 --> 01:12:26,709
journalism.
1073
01:12:28,433 --> 01:12:29,927
When we arrive, we change things.
1074
01:12:30,058 --> 01:12:32,998
We do! We do change things.
1075
01:12:33,517 --> 01:12:35,046
And you did, Ricardo!
1076
01:12:35,100 --> 01:12:35,882
You helped us.
1077
01:12:36,058 --> 01:12:37,125
You helped Angola.
1078
01:12:37,892 --> 01:12:38,923
Yeah yeah, but...
1079
01:12:39,475 --> 01:12:43,422
Ahhh... I know, my friend, I know.
1080
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:44,501
Confuçao.
1081
01:12:49,142 --> 01:12:50,137
Thank you for everything.
1082
01:12:50,183 --> 01:12:51,712
Boa sorte, camarada.
1083
01:12:57,558 --> 01:12:59,597
It is powerful, this Confuçao.
1084
01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:01,916
It steals into our hearts.
1085
01:13:03,142 --> 01:13:04,292
You cannot beat it.
1086
01:13:04,642 --> 01:13:06,052
You can only get through it...
1087
01:13:06,475 --> 01:13:08,218
and emerge, exhausted,
1088
01:13:09,058 --> 01:13:11,002
satisfied that you managed to survive,
1089
01:13:11,725 --> 01:13:14,332
but gathering strength for when it comes again.
1090
01:13:15,058 --> 01:13:16,054
Which it will.
1091
01:13:16,475 --> 01:13:17,542
It always will.
1092
01:13:19,100 --> 01:13:20,665
But even then, it has something
1093
01:13:21,183 --> 01:13:24,786
we can grab hold of, to avoid being sucked in.
1094
01:13:25,808 --> 01:13:27,681
And that's how you get through it.
1095
01:13:27,975 --> 01:13:28,971
Save something.
1096
01:13:30,017 --> 01:13:30,834
A memory.
1097
01:13:31,850 --> 01:13:32,431
A thought.
1098
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:34,347
A reflection.
1099
01:13:35,892 --> 01:13:38,203
I return in my thoughts to those I met then.
1100
01:13:39,850 --> 01:13:40,917
What has become of them?
1101
01:13:42,517 --> 01:13:43,702
What happened to Artur?
1102
01:13:44,225 --> 01:13:46,347
What about the strong, courageous Farrusco?
1103
01:13:46,392 --> 01:13:48,999
In the wars against South Africans,
1104
01:13:49,267 --> 01:13:52,372
we lost many of our best children.
1105
01:13:52,558 --> 01:13:56,256
But justice was done. We had to be there.
1106
01:13:56,392 --> 01:14:00,208
We couldn't let them kill us
without defending ourselves.
1107
01:14:00,975 --> 01:14:04,637
It was worth it. I'm an accomplished person.
1108
01:14:05,517 --> 01:14:10,092
I put a stone in the building
of this nation called Angola.
1109
01:14:10,267 --> 01:14:14,000
We won the battle that led our country
to independence.
1110
01:14:14,808 --> 01:14:18,720
But on the way, all my ideals were destroyed.
1111
01:14:18,892 --> 01:14:22,838
I'm the big loser. Where is the egalitarian society?
1112
01:14:23,892 --> 01:14:25,954
Where are my brothers without hunger?
1113
01:14:26,392 --> 01:14:27,767
And socialism?
1114
01:14:28,517 --> 01:14:29,583
And revolution?
1115
01:14:35,475 --> 01:14:43,807
THE WAR LASTED FOR ANOTHER 27 YEARS. TILL 2002. ONE
MILLION PEOPLE WERE DISPLACED. NEARLY 500.000 DEAD.
1116
01:14:47,267 --> 01:14:49,305
You must save something if you can.
1117
01:14:51,308 --> 01:14:53,750
Because people disappear without a trace...
1118
01:14:54,725 --> 01:14:56,704
Completely and irretrievably...
1119
01:14:58,100 --> 01:14:59,416
First from the world,
1120
01:14:59,500 --> 01:15:01,029
and then from our memory.
1121
01:15:11,142 --> 01:15:12,043
I will write.
1122
01:15:12,933 --> 01:15:14,628
They will never be forgotten.
1123
01:15:15,767 --> 01:15:16,917
They will leave a trace.
1124
01:15:17,517 --> 01:15:18,453
They will remain.
1125
01:15:21,350 --> 01:15:22,132
I was here.
1126
01:15:23,392 --> 01:15:24,387
This is the face I had when I was alive.
1127
01:15:26,933 --> 01:15:28,806
Look at me for a moment,
1128
01:15:31,017 --> 01:15:32,759
before you turn to something else.
1129
01:15:33,305 --> 01:15:39,783
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