Glauber Rocha's sophomore feature is a scorched-earth allegory about the blind followers of dead-end ideologies. Somewhere in the Brazilian hinterlands of th...

Cowherd Manoel and his wife are on the run in the drought-plagued and violent Brazilian badlands of 1940 after he kills a rich grazier. Moving credulously from one allegiance to another, they finally learn that the land belongs neither to God nor the Devil, but to the people.

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    11 months ago

    Thanks, HexReplyBot.

    If anyone's looking for the full film, a pre-restoration version is here: https://rarefilmm.com/2020/03/deus-e-o-diabo-na-terra-do-sol-1964/