Antonio Das Mortes - Movie. Mail. Inspired by the true story of a Brazilian bounty hunter and earning Glauber Rocha the Best Director prize at Cannes, the Cinema Novo masterwork Antonio das Mortes is packed with allusions to the politics, folklore, religion, literature, music and dance of the backland Bahia region. With Affonso Beato's camera scouring the bleak landscape to emphasise the insignificance of its residents, the action is suffused with a social and cultural symbolism that urges a rebellion against faith- based fealty. Making dazzling use of colour and boldly staging in long takes and intricate sequences that succeed in being both cinematic and operatic, Rocha mythologises the struggle between the peasantry and cangaceiro Maur. Some may bridle at the depiction of female characters like Odete Lara as self- serving and treacherous. But Rocha achieves a stylised realism whose agit- prop potency is intensified by the unflinching attitude to extreme violence. David Parkinson on Jul 2. Antonio das Mortes; Titolo originale: O Drag Antonio das Mortes (Portuguese: O Drag. Antonio das Mortes is a cangaceiros killer. Cangaceiro is the local name for a popular leader. Antonio is hired to kill the one who seems to be the last one in the. El legendario personaje de Antonio das Mortes es un hombre. Antonio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha / Brazil, 1969): (O Drag
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