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Orlando Fortunato de Oliveira
BornMarch 20, 1946
NationalityAngolan
CitizenshipAngolan
Alma materCatholic University of America
Occupation
  • Film director
Years active1989 - Present
Known forComboio de Canhoca (The Train of Cahoca)

Orlando Fortunato de Oliveira (born 1946) is an Angolan film director.

Life[edit]

Orlando Fortunato de Oliveira was born on March 20, 1946, in Benguela. He studied sciences and geophysics at the Catholic University of America before turning to cinema.[1]

He filmed Comboio de Canhoca (The Train of Cahoca) in 1989, though for political reasons the film was not released until 2004. In the film, based on a real-life colonial atrocity in the 1950s, Portuguese secret police arrest 59 Angolans, placing them in a train boxcar which is left on a rail siding for three days.[2] As the heat increases, the solidarity of the prisoners break down and they suffer asphyxiation.[3]

Filmography[edit]

References[edit]

  • ^ W. Martin James (2018). Historical Dictionary of Angola. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-5381-1123-9.
  • ^ Fernando Arenas (2011). Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence. U of Minnesota Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-8166-6983-7.
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