23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Um lobisomem na Amazônia

A Werewolf in Amazonia

Country: Brazil

Year: 2005

Duration: 74'

Natasha enters the Amazon jungle to participate in a religious rite in honor of Santo Daime. She and her two friends, Bruno and Raul, are joined in the expedition by Beto Careca, the guide, and his mysterious friend Jean Pierre. All is going well and the young people are increasingly fascinated by the landscape that gradually unfolds before their eyes, until they run into a series of strange murders. After the various members of the group give their theories, they begin to think that the assassin might, in fact, be a werewolf.

"It's a Hitchcock-like story. We're in the land of the carnival, where it's possible to film the Amazon jungle of Tijuca. The film is the third part of a trilogy that includes the preceding films O Segredo da Múmia and As Sete Vampiras." (I. Cardoso)

FILM DIRECTOR

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).