Country: Brazil
Year: 1967
Duration: 80'


Hugo Castro is an influential and corrupt politician. His daughter Luciana spends her time showing off her beauty in fashionable places. Her father doesn't pay any attention to her, as he participates in a plot to eliminate a political rival. Raul, a young civil servant, lives with his sick mother and spends his days cataloging books in the public register and shadowing Luciana as she moves from place to place. He loves her from afar, undeclared, and the girl doesn't realize it. One day Raul kills his boss in his office, kidnaps Luciana and takes her home, where he kills her and his mother and then commits suicide. "Glauber understood that I had made a parody of Terra em Transe. Of a few of its clichés, not the entire film, let's say of a type of èpolitical cinema', of which Terra em Transe was one of the founding films" (J. Bressane).

Biography

film director

Julio Bressane

Julio Bressane was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1946. As an adolescent, he frequented the haunts of the nascent Cinema Novo, establishing ties with Paulo Cezar Saraceni, Glauber Rocha and Leon Hirszman. At 19 years of age, he was assistant to Walter Lima Jr. for the film Menino de Engheno and then later to Fernando Campos for A Viagem. He debuted as a director in 1965 with the short film Lima Barreto: Trajetória. O Anjo Naceu and Matou a Familia e foi ao Cinema are received as a break with Cinema Novo. Cinema Marginal or "udigrudi". The term was never recognized by his esponents. In 1970, with Rogerìo Sganzerla and Helena Ignez, he founds the production house Belair, whose activity is brusquely interrupted by the military dictatorship, which forces the three founders into exile. Bressane lives a few years abroad, mainly in London and New York, he travels to Morocco and in Asia until 1973, when he returns to Brazil. Over the past few years, after a long period of ostracism by international festivals, his films have been presented with growing success in Taormina, Venice, Turin and Rotterdam. In 2002, the Torino Film Festival presented a complete retrospective of the Brazilian director.

FILMOGRAFIA

Lima Barreto: Trajetória (1965-1966), Bethânia Bem de Perto (1966), Elis Regina (1966, film perduto), Cara a Cara (1967), O Anjo Nasceu (1969), Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema (1969), Barão Olavo, o Horrível (1970), A Miss e o Dinosauro (1970, film perduto), Cuidado Madame (1970), Memórias de um Estrangulador de Louras/Memories of a Blonde Strangler (1971), Amor Louco/Crazy Love (1971), A Fada do Oriente (1972, film perduto), Lágrima Pantera (1972, film perduto), O Rei do Baralho (1973); Viagem Através do Brasil I (1973-1974), Viagem Através do Brasil II (1973-1974), Viagem Através do Brasil III (1973-1974-1975), O Monstro Caraíba - Nova História Antiga do Brasil (1975), Viola Chinesa - Meu Encontro com o Cinema Brasileiro (1975), A Agonia (1976), O Gigante da América (1976), Cidade Pagã (1979), Cinema inocente (1980), Tabu (1982), Brás Cubas (1985), Sob o Céu, Sob o Sol, Salvador (1987), Sermões - A História de António Vieira (1989), Quem seria o Feliz Conviva de Isadora Duncan? (1992), Galáxia Albina (1992), Infernalário: Logodédalo - Galaxia Dark (1993), O Cinema do Cinema - Criação e Recriação da Imagem no Filme Cinematográfico (1993), Antonioni - Hitchcock: A Imagen em Fuga (1993), As Canções que Vôce fez pra Mim (1994), O Mandarim (1995), Miramar (1997), São Jerônimo (1998), Dias de Nietzsche em Turim (2001), Nietszche in Nice, Filme de Amor (2003).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Julio Bressane.
Director of photography: Afonso Beato.
Art director: Luiz Carlos Ripper.
Music: Sidney Waisman.
Editor: Eduardo Escorel.
Director assistant: Antonio Calmon.
Programação Visual: Rogério Duarte.
Cast: Helena Ignez, Antero de Oliveira, Paulo Gracindo, Paula Padilha, Maria Lucia Dahl, Vanda Lacerda, Rosita Tom·s Lopes, Ítalo Rossi, Napoleão Moniz Freire, Benedito Corsi, João Angelo Labanca, Enio GonÇalves, João Paulo Adour, Hélio Ari, Claudio Petraglia.
Production company: Julio Bressane Produções Cinematográficas.
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