Released Date:
1980-11-17
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil
Runtime:
140 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (268 Reviews)
Director:
Glauber RochaCastro Alves (poem)
Glauber Rocha (screenplay)
Glauber Rocha (story)
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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