An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
Genres:
Nelson Xavier as Mário
Lima Duarte as Salatiel
Isabel Ribeiro as Laura
Maria Silvia as Lindalva
Hugo Carvana as José
Leina Krespi as
Fernando Peixoto as
Helber Rangel as Alfredo
Luis Pellegrini as
Álvaro Freire as
Luiz Rosemberg Filho as Assessor
Roberto Frota as Assessor
Tonico Pereira as Tonho
Saul Lachtermacher as
Ivan de Souza as
Jurandyr Ferreira as
Perfeito Fortuna as
Paulo César Peréio as Pedro
Cosme dos Santos as Operário
Leonidas Bayer as
Carlos Eduardo Novaes as
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