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Black god, white devil = Deus e o diabo na terra do sol  Cover Image DVD DVD

Black god, white devil = Deus e o diabo na terra do sol / Copacabana Filmes apresenta ; una produção de Luiz Augusto Mendes ; estoria, dialogos e direção, Glauber Rocha.

Summary:
After killing his swindling boss, ranch hand Manoel goes on the run with his wife, Rosa. In the stark hinterlands, they join forces with armed bandits and pledge allegiance to a self-styled holy man who preaches revolt against rich landowners while perpetrating unspeakable acts of violence against the innocent.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9798886071627
  • Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : illustrations ; 19 cm)
  • Edition: Two-DVD special edition.
  • Publisher: [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2024]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Special features: New 4K digital restoration; Audio commentary by restoration producer Lino Meireles; New interview with film scholar Richard Peña; Glauber the movie, labyrinth of Brazil (2003), a documentary on director Glauber Rocha; Cinema Novo (2016), a documentary on the Brazilian film movement; Memória do cangaço (1964), a short documentary on the origins of cangaço, a form of social banditry in northeastern Brazil; Trailer; Essay by film scholar Fábio Andrade.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Editor, Rafael Valverde ; music, Sergio Ricardo ; cinematography, Waldemar Lima.
Participant or Performer Note:
Yoná Magalhães, Othon Bastos, Mauricio Do Valle, Lidio Silva, Sonia Dos Humildes, Geraldo Del Rey.
System Details Note:
DVD; NTSC, region 1; mono; Dolby audio.
Language Note:
Portuguese dialogue; English subtitles.
Subject: Brazil > Social life and customs > Drama.
Cults > Brazil > 20th century > Drama.
Outlaws > Brazil > 20th century > Drama.
Genre: Action and adventure films.
Feature films.
Motion pictures, Brazilian.
Action and adventure films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Films d'aventures.
Films de fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at Berks County. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at RACC.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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