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  • 2014
  • R
  • The Vladar Company
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • The Vladar Company
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary Following nearly 40 years of unrelenting war – with every attendant horror – peace and reconstruction are slowly arriving to Angola. Damaged first by the war for independence from Portugal, Angola was then ripped apart by a devastating civil war that orphaned thousands of children. Huambo, Angola’s second largest city, finds 55 of these ...

Directed By: Jeremy Xido

  • 2014
  • R
  • The Vladar Company
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • The Vladar Company
  • 1 h 23 m

Death Metal Angola

Metascore Generally Favorable
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Summary Following nearly 40 years of unrelenting war – with every attendant horror – peace and reconstruction are slowly arriving to Angola. Damaged first by the war for independence from Portugal, Angola was then ripped apart by a devastating civil war that orphaned thousands of children. Huambo, Angola’s second largest city, finds 55 of these ...

Directed By: Jeremy Xido

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91
Nov 25, 2014
Death Metal Angola is deeply involving and, in its own way, completely and refreshingly unusual.
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Nov 4, 2014
While hardly the first or most accomplished film of its kind, Death Metal Angola's focus on the ability of abrasive music to act as a healing agent builds toward genuine moments of renewal and serenity.
By Michael Nordine FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 4, 2014
An upbeat chronicle of very hard rock in a very hard place, Death Metal Angola is one of the livelier and more enticingly exotic additions to the ever-burgeoning music-documentary sub-genre.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
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Nov 20, 2014
The concert itself was a bold, life-affirming project, but with a couple of additional extended music sequences, Mr. Xido’s film might have been more powerful and way more hardcore.
By Anita Gates FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cabula6, Coalition Films
Release Date Nov 7, 2014
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating R
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Tagline The hardest hardcore is Angolan hardcore.
Website http://www.deathmetalangola.com/
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Awards

Rhode Island International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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