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BRAZIL · 1970

Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças

Glauber Rocha
Cinema Novo Brazil colonialism political corruption Cold War intrigue religious hypocrisy revolutionary resistance
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Synopsis

A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.

Year1970
CountryBrazil
DirectorGlauber Rocha
MovementCinema Novo Brazil
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