Professor Expedito Vitos lives a reclusive life immersed in his research. Thanks to an ancient map he finds the tomb of the mummy Runanb and reconstructs his story: Runanb was a rich merchant who was so enamored of the ballerina Nadja that he turned into a psychopathic killer obsessed by the object of his passion. He is betrayed by a servant and is condemned to a terrible punishment: he is killed and his soul will remain imprisoned inside his body until he can awaken the pity of a woman. Three thousand years later, thanks to professor Vitos' discovery, Runanb's mummy has the opportunity to see the journalist Miriam, who is Nadja's reincarnation, giving him the chance to find peace.
Biography
film director
Ivan Cardoso
Ivan Cardoso (Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, 1952),
photographer and artist, decided to dedicate himself to cinema after
seeing
O Bandido da
Luz Vermelha (1968)
by Rogério Sganzerla.
During the early
1970s he put his photographic activity at the service of the
Tropicalism
movement, creating the covers for albums by Gal Costa and Caetano
Veloso and
illustrating
books by Waly Salomão,
Torquato Neto o Augusto and Haroldo de Campos. After directing many
short films
in Super8, in 1982 he made his first full-length fiction film, O
Segredo da
Múmia, with which he created a new genre,
"terrir," a mixture of comedy and
horror.
FILMOGRAFIA
Alô
Alô Cinédia (cm, 1973), Moreira
da Silva (cm,
1973), Museu Goeldi (cm, 1974), Teasarama
(cm, 1975), Ruínas
de Murucutu (cm, 1976), O Universo de Mojica
Marins (cm, 1978), Dr.
Dyonélio (cm, 1978), Ho (cm,
1979), Domingo de Ramos (cm,
1981), O Segredo da Múmia (1982), Os
Bons Tempos Voltaram: Vamos
Gozar Outra Vez (1983), A História de
um Olho (1986), As Sete
Vampiras (1986), O Escorpião Escarlate (1991),
Sexo, Drogas e
Rock'n'Roll (cm, 1999), Um
Lobisomem na Amazônia (2005), Heliorama
(cm, 2005), Marca do Terrir (2005).
Cast
& Credits
Plot: Eduardo Viveros, Ivan Cardoso.
Screenplay: R.F. Lucchetti.
Director of photography: Renato Lacletti, César Elias, João Carlos Horta.
Editor: Ricardo Miranda, Cris Altan, Gilberto Santeiro.
Suono: Julio Medaglia, Gilberto Santeiro.
Effetti: Sérgio Farjala.
Assistenti: Nina de P·dua, Sérgio Rodrigues.
Cast and characters: Anselmo Vasconcellos (Runamb e la mummia), Wilson Gray (Expedito Vitus), Clarice Piovesan (Gilda Vitus), Tania Boscoli (Nadja e Míriam), Felipe Falcão (Igor), Regina Casé (Regina).
Production company: Ivan E.S. Cardoso, Zelito Vianna per Super 8 Produções Cinematográficas e Produções Cinamatográficas Mapa.