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Antonio das Mortes / O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro Series: 1968: An International Perspective [April 29-May 14] Director: Glauber Rocha, Release: 1969, Runtime: 100 "A ferocious populist folk epic." - A. O. Scott, The New York Times “A fierce, raggedy ballad, Glauber Rocha's folk ‘western’ is one of the triumphs of cinema novo - a model for programmatic Third World movies as disparate as El Topo and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song." - J. Hoberman, The Village Voice No other film better captured the radical ferment of Latin American cinema and politics than Glauber Rocha's Antonio das Mortes. A hulking bounty hunter in the employ of the military and the landowners, Antonio is sent to kill Coirana, last of the cangaceiros, gaudily dressed bandits often celebrated as folk heroes because of their attacks on the rich. Antonio is victorious, but somehow Coirana refuses to die: his rebellious energy and spirit have been transferred to the local townspeople, whose continuous dancing and chanting seems to keep Coirana alive. The local schoolteacher shows Antonio that he can make history--the question, however, is whose history does he want to make? Awash with religious imagery drawn from both Christian and African traditions (the Portuguese title translates to The Dragon of Evil vs. the Holy Warrior), Antonio das Mortes is outrageous, allegorical, operatic and essential. Brazil/France/West Germany Screening courtesy of Koch Lorber Films

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