1 Movie Starring Antonio Pitanga

The Age of the Earth

The Age of the Earth

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-11-17

Languages:

Portuguese

Countries:

Brazil

Runtime:

140 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (268 Reviews)

Director:

Glauber Rocha

Cast:

Writer:

Castro Alves (poem)

Glauber Rocha (screenplay)

Glauber Rocha (story)

Fullplot:

The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, Glauber Rocha decided to make this film about the life of Christ in the Third World. Starting from a dialectical synthesis between capitalism and socialism, and a search of interracial relationships in Brazil, Rocha created a work of religious and prophetic tone that results in a kind of bewilderment contemplative, now lyrical, now frantic, soaked in a new messianism. In his last film, the director proposed a tune of sounds and images that build a picture of Brazil and a portrait of himself.

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