Macunaíma / Difilm apresenta ; na produção, Filmes do Sêrro, Grupo Filmes, Condor Filmes ; adaptação e roteiro, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade ; direção, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade.̌ Os inconfidentes = The conspirators / um filme de Joaquim Pedro de Andrade ; roteiro de Joaquim Pedro de Andrade e Eduardo Escorel.
Container of (work): Macunaíma (Motion picture) Container of (work): Inconfidentes (Motion picture) Brasília, contradições de uma cidada nova. Linguagem da persuasão.
Notes:
Title from title screens. Macunaíma : Grande Otelo, Paulo José, Jardel Filho, Milton Gonçalves, Dina Sfat, Rodolfo Arena. Macunaíma: narrator, Tite de Lemos . Os inconfidentes : José Wilker, Luis Linhares, Paulo Cesar Peréio, Fernando Torres. Macunaíma originally released as a motion picture in 1969; Os inconfidentes originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Macunaíma based on the novel of the same name by Mário de Andrade. Restored versions. Bonus features: Short films: Brasília, contradições de uma cidada nova = Brasilia, contradictions of a new city (1967, 23 min.) ; A linguagem da persuasão = The language of persuasion (1970, 11 minutes).
Summary:
Macunaíma: One of the high points of Brazil's subversive Cinema Novo movement, and an anarchic comedy that mixes ancient myths, racial burlesque, and urban guerillas into a hallucinatory masterpiece. The film follows the 'hero with no character,' after he emerges as a full-size adult from his mother's belly. Born black, he magically turns white as he wanders aimlessly across the country, tricking his way through traps laid out by witches and giants, while also falling in with a beautiful revolutionary. Os inconfidentes: a historical reconstruction of a failed coup during Brazil's colonial period.
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