Sambizanga

"Sambizanga" focuses on a young black couple (splendidly played by Domingus Oliviera and Elisa Andrade), who bask in each other's presence until the husband, a tractor driver, is suddenly arrested as a political prisoner. His wife, who knows nothing about his politics, walks with their baby on her back from village to village, between fields of tall grasses and huge hills, trying to locate him. Angry or desperate at moments, stoical at others, she struggles through a world that rarely explains anything to women. While she's sent from one police station to another, often repulsed or lied to, he's beaten by inquisitors who torture him in hopes of learning the names of others in the movement. He remains mute, but we almost wish that he would talk. And even his death is a relief. (Nora Sayre, New York times  22/11/1973)