Orlando Fortunato de Oliveira

Orlando Fortunato de Oliveira was born on 20 March 1946 in Benguela. He studied science and geophysics at the Catholic University of America before turning to cinema: a first film appeared in 1978, and he resumed his studies in 1981 at the London International Film School. Regarded as one of the pioneers of Angolan cinema, he devotes most of his work to the colonial period, from the Icolo e Bengo massacre in 1960 to the repression of 1953 in São Tomé, and in 2000 he filmed the country's first president.

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• Feature filmThe Train of CanhocaComboio da CanhocaOrlando Fortunato de Oliveira · 1989Cinema