The Great Kilapy

The Great Kilapy

Original Title: O Grande Kilapy
Release: 2012 | Community Score: 73%

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.