Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel (Geraldo del Rey) flees with his wife Rosa (Yoná Magalhães) to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol
Brazil / 120 min / 1964 / fiction
in Portuguese with English subtitles
Direction: Glauber Rocha
Screenplay: Glauber Rocha
Cinematography: Waldemar Lima
Editing: Glauber Rocha, Rafael Justo Valverde
Producers: Luiz Augusto Mendes
Cast: Yoná Magalhães
Geraldo Del Rey
Othon Bastos
Maurício do Valle
In 1981, the year of his death, Glauber Rocha explained that the film he had made in 1964 (which marked the transition from the first to the second phase of Brazilian Cinema Novo) had been born out of impossibility. The impossibility of making a great Western like Ford did. Within this desire, Soviet influences (not only Eisenstein, in terms of intention and editing, but also Vertov) and Buñuel's surrealism also clashed. And, of course, Rossellini's ideas. - Carlos Natalio
