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Martin Scorsese's world cinema project volume no. 4
Criterion collection volume 1144
Criterion collection volume 1143
Criterion collection volume 1144
Criterion collection volume 1143
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Portuguese
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Sambizanga: Set during the Angolan War of Independence, a young women makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city's center, looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portugese authorities.
Prisioneros de la tierra: Desperate men are entrapped into indentured labor on a jungle yerba mate plantation under the brutal foreman Kohner-- a situation made tenser by the fact that both Kohner and a worker named Podeley love Andrea, the...
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Language
Portuguese
Description
Pixote: The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution and drugs.
Dos monjes: In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them. Javier, a consumptive musician, fell in love with and was betrothed to Anita. When his old friend...
3) Pixote
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Language
Portuguese
Description
With a blend of harsh realism and aching humanity, Pixote offers an electrifying look at youth fighting to survive on the bottom rung of Brazilian society, and a stinging indictment of the country's military dictatorship and police.
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