BRAZIL · 1961

Red Mandacaru

Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Cinema Novo Brazil forbidden love arranged marriage revenge class conflict escape
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Despite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes after them, in order to kill them for revenge.

Year1961
CountryBrazil
DirectorNelson Pereira dos Santos
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