DEUS E O DIABO NA TERRA DO SOL
BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL

Brazil, 120 min, 1964

Directed by Glauber Rocha

New 4K restoration

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Brazil's preeminent film of the Cinema Novo movement presented in official competition in Cannes in 1964. A tale of upheaval, fanaticism and violence in the hinterlands.

 

Cowhand Manuel and his wife Rosa flee their home after he kills a rich local rancher who tries to swindle him. In the drought-plagued and violent Brazilian badlands, they meet two iconic figures: Sebastião, who claims to be divine, and Corisco, who labels himself demonic. Casting their fates with these figures proves tragic, however, for mercenary Antonio das Mortes is on their trail.

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