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Virgin Margarida

Virgem Margarida

2012

In the wake of Mozambique's independence, sex workers rounded up from the cities are sent to a remote re-education camp to be remade as model citizens, among them an innocent teenager wrongly swept up in the raids. A powerful drama of a revolution's contradictions.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Mozambique

This film is stop 5 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Mozambique. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

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