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The Beginning of the Exploitation of Brazil
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In 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the Frenches and their enemies are the Tupiniquins...
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One of best movies ever made, but then I have weird tastes
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Cast
(in credits order) | Arduíno Colassanti | ... | The Frenchman |
| Ana Maria Magalhães | ... | Seboipepe |
| Eduardo Imbassahy Filho | ... | Cunhambebe |
| Manfredo Colassanti | ... | The tradesman |
| José Kléber | ... | Ipiraguaçu |
| Gabriel Archanjo | ... | Mbiratata |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Gabriel Araújo | ||
| Ana Batista | ||
| João Amaro Batista | ||
| Hélio Fernando | ||
| Luiz Carlos Lacerda | ||
| Maria de Souza Lima | ||
| Wilson Manlio | ||
| Ana Maria Miranda | ||
| Célio Moreira | ... | (voice) |
| Ital Natur | ||
| Janira Santiago | ||
| José Soares | ||
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| Nelson Pereira dos Santos | |||
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| Humberto Mauro | Tupi dialogue | |
| Nelson Pereira dos Santos | ||
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| Luiz Carlos Barreto | .... | producer | |
| K.M. Eckstein | .... | producer | |
| Nelson Pereira dos Santos | .... | producer | |
| César Thedim | .... | producer | |
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| Guilherme Magalhães Vaz | |||
| Zé Rodrix | |||
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| Dib Lutfi | |||
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| Carlos Alberto Camuyrano | |||
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| Régis Monteiro | |||
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| Mara Chaves | |||
| María Chaves | |||
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| Irênio Marques | .... | production manager | |
| Chris Rodrigues | .... | production manager | |
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| Luiz Carlos Lacerda | .... | assistant director | |
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| Antônio César | .... | sound effects editor | |
| Geraldo José | .... | sound effects editor | |
| Nelson Ribeiro | .... | sound | |
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| Ronaldo Nunes | .... | assistant camera | |
Other crew | |||
| Raimundo Bandeira de Melo | .... | production assistant | |
| Carlos Alberto Diniz | .... | production assistant | |
| Pedro Aurélio Gentil | .... | production assistant | |
| Luiz Carlos Ripper | .... | ethnographical consultant | |
| Antonio Luis Soares | .... | production assistant | |
| Waldir Surtan | .... | title designer | |
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- New Yorker Films (1973) (USA) (subtitled)
- Regina Filmes (2010) (Brazil) (DVD) (subtitles in Portuguese, English & Spanish)
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"Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês" - Brazil (original title)
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Nearly all dialogue is written and spoken in the original native Brazilian Indian language Tupi, as translated by the celebrated Brazilian pioneer filmmaker Humberto Mauro.See more »
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I saw this movie at a college film festival back in the 70's - I have been waiting FOREVER for this movie to come out on video (finally it's out). It was made in Brazil, so I assumed that was why it hadn't made it to video yet. I have been checking video stores for the past 15 years waiting for this outstanding movie to come out! It is one of my all-time favorites - but be warned, it is weird, like Werner Herzog weird - its weirdness stems from its super-realism.
The movie is based on a true incident back a few centuries ago, in pre-colonial times, when Europeans were first encountering the tribes in the Amazon. A white man is mistaken by a savage tribe of cannibals as their enemy, so they intend to kill him. Before they dispatch him, though, they make him part of their tribe (their custom). The entire movie is like watching a National Geographic documentary as he becomes an accepted member of their tribe. That's it. Cosmic plotline? No. Intense insight into the variety of human life? Definitely.
Oh yeah... be warned... this film has definite nudity - this is not some Hollywood schlock flick about noble savages... this film tells it like it was (re-read above: National Geographic, super-realism)