All language subtitles for Another.Day.of.Life.2018.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG_2_English

DEATH TO COMMUNISTS
DEATH TO MPLA

CONNECTION

I grew up under injustice
and the absence of freedom.

Not mine. Somebody else's.

And my mother whispered in my ear,

"Son, you must always stand
with those who suffer".

I unconditionally positioned
myself on the side of the...

of the MPLA.

We had a popular army.
People armed themselves.

You, me, anyone.

And at that time, in 1975,
I was in that fight

when I met Kapuściński, Ricardo.

- [Artur] He loved that atmosphere.

Especially that of the suburbs
and the musseques.

The biggest support for the MPLA

came from the neighborhoods
and the musseques.

MPLA's activists were heavily armed
in the neighborhoods,

and when we entered
we felt at home,

totally safe.

YOU'RE DEAD,
SOCIALIST REPORTER

Do you know when you're
living on the edge

and your life is no longer
worth a great deal?

It's much easier to make friends.
We became friends.

A friendship that's only possible
when you are totally hopeless.

- [Artur] Kapuściński suffered
the reporter's insanity that takes you

to places which could be the last...
But you go.

And he went.

The MPLA had the support of more
than 90% of the Angolan people.

Each citizen turned
a defender of his homeland.

Women, children,

old people, the sick... Everyone.

Those from FNLA and UNITA
were professional assassins.

They murdered peasant towns
of northern Angola

in cold blood.

When was the last time you were here?

Since '75.
I never came back.

And what do you feel?

Maybe a little anguish.

- [Artur] What I saw, what I witnessed
on this road was maybe

the most infernal image
I've ever seen in my life.

Imagine several kilometers of road
scattered with corpses.

About 40 or 50 km.

We got out of the car and ran
to check if there was any child alive.

But they were all dead.

Mothers and children killed
by the same shot.

I lost peace forever.

Right here on this road.

I was aware they were going
to massacre us here,

it was almost like a death foretold.

Easy. Easy.

- [Artur] I was a journalist

and a fighter at the same time.

I had to...

shoot.

That's not worthy of a journalist,
but I was a fighter too.

I'm aware I broke

my professional code.

And not only I broke it,
but also torpedoed it.

Do you remember if you killed someone?

I hope not.
Whoever it was.

Not even the cruelest assassin.

No. I hope not.

White man...

- [Luis] It was very weird
he was there,

a lonely Polish reporter...

Why a Polish man?

He shook my hand vigorously.

He wasn't looking for friends.

He was looking
for people with authority

who could take him
to the key points of the war.

Come on, guys, you help us?

- [Luis] Carlota had such a charisma

that from the beginning
was intimately tied

to the guarantee of victory.

She was a very arrogant guerrilla,
very determined,

with her Kalashnikov...

She had her own project of a nation.

And she was very concerned
about children,

about how children
would be educated in Angola

in the foreseeable future.

- [Luis] Kapuściński asked me,

"Are you scared?"

And I said, "The further we go,
the greater will be the danger".

And he smiled at me and said,

"When the shots start,
fear disappears".

First, the vision.
Then, the smell.

We saw corpses

of soldiers and guerrillas.

They were about to burst,
they were all swollen.

Carlota said
that could cause a plague,

that it was dangerous
for the health of the children

who were playing nearby.

Kapuściński also helped

to spray the bodies with petrol.

Then Carlota,

with her machine gun
and Commander Toni

fired to set them on fire.

- [Luis] Silence took over us

when the car started.

We were afraid
of what could happen

because it was a battlefront.

There were thick dark clouds
in the night sky.

- [Recording of Luis] The victories of
the revolutionary war

come at a high price:

Camarada Carlota,

who we had just interviewed
at the Balombo's front.

Less than 24 hours later,
Carlota dropped dead.

- [Present-day Luis] Kapuściński said,

"We should have insisted
until the end".

Feelings of guilt increased.

Kapuściński cried,

I had already cried at the hotel.

And I said to Kapuściński,

"Carlota has died,
they're going to lose the war".

And Kapuściński replied,
"Morally, I think so".

- [Luis] I still miss her.

- [Soldiers] The struggle continues!

Victory is certain!

- [Farusco] Joaquim António
Lopes Farrusco.

I was born in Portugal.

The first image I have

is the one that changed my life.

I remember it as if it was today.

It was a small child,

with very ripped, very old,
very dirty clothes.

He shouted, "Give me a coin!
Give me bread!"

I got sad and I said to myself,

"Here they're in the same situation
I was in my country".

That barefoot boy reminded me

of my adolescence.

I didn't come to defend anyone,

I probably came to oppress, right?

I was a commando,
from the special forces.

I was 24.

It wasn't very difficult for me

to take a single side:

the side of the most disadvantaged.

It was very difficult
to survive in that front.

A very broad front.

I had nothing
except a handful of guerrillas

and the good will of
MPLA's supporters, the people.

Kapuściński talked to me
for a few hours.

And we talked about my son
who, by life's paradoxes,

ended up being killed by UNI TA.

He was simply killed
because I'm General Farrusco,

and they knew
who General Farrusco was.

It was revenge.

Many parents lost their children.

I wasn't the only one.

I'm heading there,
with the AK, fighting.

I think, "Well, here I have
a few minutes left, let's..."

let's fight to death
with those guys".

I'm already dead.

- [Farusco] The stream of blood
was huge.

I heard, but I couldn't see.

And my subconscious told me,

"Careful, calm down,
there's no problem, all will be fine".

There was a second voice
inside me that gave me...

some life.

When the South Africans arrived,
I got stuck there.

In the hospital.

It was an unequal fight.

The South African artillery,
the South African armour,

the helicopters' machine guns...

And even so, they resisted
fighting for four hours.

Nearly all of those
who resisted there died.

It was a massacre.
That was a massacre.

Kapuściński left Luanda to come
and see what was happening.

To tell the world
that South African forces

were invading
the Angolan territory.

The world denied it.

I think this was his mission.

A mission that led him to me,
to the south of Angola.

It was a rather
distressing conversation

because that day,
we knew we were going to lose.

We were living
the last days of our lives.

Because they were going
to get in shortly.

As soon as I told him to leave,

he replied, "No, I'll stay with you",

because I don't intend to yield
on my place by an invading army.

This is my mission.

I'll stay with you
and I'll send my last news...

That's what he said to me.

The CIA, yes,
the CI A organized everything.

The CI A against Angola.

South African troops invaded
Southern Angola, the central plateau.

They took Benguela,
Lobito and continued.

We were besieged in Luanda.

Ricardo always said, "It's racism
spread all around Africa".

I f these guys win, we're going to have
an apartheid all over Africa".

That's what he thought.

The MPLA was alone,
MPLA forces were alone.

Soviets abandoned us.

The Camarada President
had to ask for help to Cuba.

And Camarada Fidel didn't hesitate,
he didn't wait for Kremlin's orders.

We were certain that either

we won the battle of information
or they would destroy us.

And the MPLA would never take power.

He, knowing that it was
a large-scale operation,

had doubts about whether
he should send the telex or not.

We were reporters and we gave
our lives for our job.

Certainly, Ricardo became

a fighter of our cause,
in his own way. Certainly.

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- [Artur] Kapuściński and I
went to the airport.

And when I saw those Cubans
and those weapons arriving

I thought we still had
some chance of winning.

- [Kissinger] If the Soviet Union
and Cuban military forces

continue actions such as Angola,

we will without any questions resist.

- [Castro] Because they had
everything planned

in order to take over Angola
before November 11th.

We're not looking for oil,
diamonds or any material interest.

We're fulfilling
an elementary internationalist duty

when we're helping
the people of Angola.

- [Announcer] The Central Committee
of the MPLA

solemnly proclaims

before Africa and the whole world,
the independence of Angola.

- [Artur] It was the
happiest day of my life.

This Africa being born in Angola

was an Africa without neocolonialism,

the Africa of a complete
and authentic liberation.

Kapuściński and I went to have
a drink of Carta Blanca rum

to celebrate it.
A small celebration.

We hugged.

We were very happy.

Victory is certain!
Victory is certain!

In the wars against South Africans,

we lost many
of our best children.

But justice was done.
We had to be there.

We couldn't let them kill us
without defending ourselves.

It was worth it.
I'm an accomplished person.

I put a stone in the building
of this nation called Angola.

We won the battle that led
our country to independence.

But on the way,
all my ideals were destroyed.

I'm the big loser.
Where is the egalitarian society?

Where are my brothers without hunger?

And socialism?

And revolution?