Country: Brazil
Year: 1966
Duration: 15'
"This is my first attempt at a color film. I went back to the Amazon with a preconceived idea and discovered that the legendary and magic Amazon did not exist, the Amazon of the crocodiles, of the tigers, of the Indians..." (Glauber Rocha)
Biography
film director
Glauber Rocha
Glauber Rocha (Vitória da Conquista, Brazil, 1939 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1981) was one of the fathers of Cinéma Nôvo, a film movement that started breathing new life into Brazilian cinema in the Sixties. His opus includes features like Black God, White Devil (1964), Entranced Earth (1967), and Antonio das mortes (1968, Palm d’Or in Cannes for Best Director). His work was connected to the tales and traditions of Brazil, it was combined with his expressive research, his political activism against capitalism and the cultural homologation of his country. During the Seventies, he traveled and worked around Africa and Europe, collaborating also with Carmelo Bene, among others.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mossa Bildner, Glauber Rocha
A Vida É Estranha (mm, 2015).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Glauber Rocha.
Director of photography: Fernando Duarte.
Music: Villa-Lobos.
Sound: Hélio Barrozo Neto.
Production company: Departamento de Turismo e Promoções do Estado do Amazonas.
Director of photography: Fernando Duarte.
Music: Villa-Lobos.
Sound: Hélio Barrozo Neto.
Production company: Departamento de Turismo e Promoções do Estado do Amazonas.