Viva Riva!
Viva Riva! [videorecording] /
- Toronto : Mongrel Media, [2011]
- 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 2010. Special features: interview with director; Papy, a short film; theatrical trailer.
Cinematography, Antoine Roch ; editor, Yves Langlois ; music, Louis Vynche & Congopunq. Cinematography, Antoine Roch ; editor, Yves Langlois ; music, Louis Vynche & Congopunq.
Manie Malone, Patsha Bay.
Riva is a small-time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful nightclub denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of fuel.
MPAA rating: R, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, brutal violence, language and some drug use.
DVD ; 5.1 Dobly digital ; widescreen (1.85:1).
French and Lingala dialogue with English subtitles.
DVD4701 Mongrel Media
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Thieves--Drama.
Organized crime--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa--Drama.
Feature films--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Action and adventure films.
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 2010. Special features: interview with director; Papy, a short film; theatrical trailer.
Cinematography, Antoine Roch ; editor, Yves Langlois ; music, Louis Vynche & Congopunq. Cinematography, Antoine Roch ; editor, Yves Langlois ; music, Louis Vynche & Congopunq.
Manie Malone, Patsha Bay.
Riva is a small-time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful nightclub denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of fuel.
MPAA rating: R, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, brutal violence, language and some drug use.
DVD ; 5.1 Dobly digital ; widescreen (1.85:1).
French and Lingala dialogue with English subtitles.
DVD4701 Mongrel Media
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Thieves--Drama.
Organized crime--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa--Drama.
Feature films--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Action and adventure films.
