1970 · 100 min · dramat · komedia

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Opis filmu

Opis oryginalny: portugalski

In another literary adaptation – this time Machado de Assis’ novella O Alienista – and his first color film, dos Santos unleashes an extravagant, maddening excoriation of Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1970s. As usual, the director exploits all cinematic constituents in his palette – a radically intrusive and discordant soundtrack, non sequitur editing, exaggerated camera angles and all manner of carnivalesque pageantry – to illustrate the tale of a doctor/priest on a mission to discover truth through the study of madness. The population of his asylum grows as his definition of sanity fluctuates until it finally threatens to incorporate the entire town. The film’s own irrational reversals and allegorical codes gleefully mock the arbitrariness of authoritarianism in all its varied guises. -Harvard Film Archive

Reżyseria i główne role

Reżyseria: Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Główne role: Nildo Parente jako Father Simão Bacamarte, Isabel Ribeiro jako D. Evarista, Arduíno Colassanti jako Porfírio, Irene Stefânia jako Porfírio's lover, Leila Diniz jako Eudóxia, Ana Maria Magalhães

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Scenariusz

Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Machado de Assis