Nha Fala - My voice

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Movie
German title Nha Fala - My voice
Original title Nha Fala
Country of production Portugal , France , Luxembourg , Cape Verde
original language Cape Verdean Creole , French
Publishing year 2002
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Flora Gomes
script Flora Gomes, Franck Moisnard
production Luís Galvão Teles
music Manu Dibango
camera Edgar Moura
cut Dominique Pâris
occupation

Nha Fala - My Voice is a film by the Guinea-Bissau director Flora Gomes from 2002 .

action

Before Vita leaves her Cape Verdean homeland to study in Europe, her mother makes her promise never to sing. According to the mother, there is a curse on the family, according to which every female member has to die if they should sing in public. Arrived in Paris, Vita met Pierre. The musician recognizes her as a talented singer and persuades her to become a singer. She feels liberated and confirmed by singing. Vita then records an album that is a sales success. Now Vita fears that her mother might find out about her activity as a singer, and she decides to fly to her mother to remove the curse there.

reception

The musical comedy, which accompanies the cheerful and dramatic story with musical- like dance scenes and musical interludes, deals with African family traditions and the emancipation of women as well as the exclusion of strangers in Europe. The title Nha Fala (port .: A minha fala or A minha voz , German: My voice) also stands for the desire to be able to express one's innermost being unadulterated and freely.

The film was shot in the Cape Verdean cultural metropolis Mindelo and in Paris , the score was written by the well-known musician Manu Dibango . The film was produced by the Portuguese production company Fado Filmes , together with the French Les Films de Mai and the Luxembourg company Samsa Film . The leading actress Fatou N'Diaye, born in Senegal in 1980, learned Cape Verdean Creole for the film .

The film screened at a number of festivals, including the Venice Film Festival in 2002 , where it won awards. Nha Fala also won prizes at the Ouagadougou African Film Festival and the Amiens International Film Festival .

Nha Fala has been released on DVD several times , for example in German-speaking countries by the public-law foundation trigon-film in Switzerland.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry of the film ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.cinema.sapo.pt, accessed October 14, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cinema.sapo.pt
  2. ^ German-language page of the film at www.trigon-film.org, accessed on October 14, 2013
  3. ↑ A.Murtinheira / I.Metzeltin: history of Portuguese cinema . 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 147f ( ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 )
  4. ↑ Bonus material from the Portuguese DVD edition, new age 2003
  5. ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed October 14, 2013
  6. ^ Nha Fala - My voice at www.trigon-film.org, accessed on October 14, 2013