Napumoceno’s Will
November 4, 2008O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno
Call Number: VHS00242
by Francisco Manso; Nelson Xavier; Maria Ceiça; Chico Diaz; Zezé Motta; Vya Negromonte; Milton Gonçalves; Francisco de Assis; Germano Almeida; J.L. Vasconcelos, Lda.; California Newsreel (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1997 (110 mins.); Based on the novel by Germano de Almeida;
Summary: O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno is an epic, or at least an epic farce, from one of the world’s least known but most culturally complex societies – Cape Verde. This classic tale of the hollowness at the core of provincial bourgeois life introduces English speaking audiences to Germano Almeida, one of the outstanding writers in Portuguese today. With its novelistic breadth, the film offers a bildungsroman of a man and a society so caught up in the pursuit of conventional success and prestige it overlooks its true self almost until it is too late.
OCLC #: 41180395
Added: November 3, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
