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28 March 1986 (USA)
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Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation...
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historically interesting, but a horrible production
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Jonas Bloch | ... | Samuel |
| Zózimo Bulbul | ||
| Emmanuel Cavalcanti | ||
| Arduíno Colassanti | ||
| Jorge Coutinho | ... | Sale |
| Babaú da Mangueira | ||
| Roberto de Cleto | ||
| Chico Díaz | ||
| Aniceto do Império | ||
| Maurício do Valle | ... | Dominingos Jorge Velho |
| Sabrina Fidalgo | ||
 | Daniel Filho | ... | Carrilho |
| Vera Fischer | ... | Ana de Ferro |
| Léa Garcia | ||
| Milton Gonçalves | ||
| Thiago Justino | ||
| Marcos Konica | ||
| Carlos Kroeber | ||
| Swami Leeladahar | ||
| Eduardo Machado | ||
| Sérgio Maia | ||
| Scarlet Moon | ||
| Luis Motta | ||
| Zezé Motta | ... | Dandara |
| Kim Negro | ||
| João Nogueira | ... | Rufino |
| Waldir Onofre | ||
| Grande Otelo | ... | Baba |
| José Márcio Passos | ||
| Paulão | ||
| Antonio Pitanga | ... | Acaiuba |
| Camila Pitanga | ||
| Ruy Polanah | ||
| Antônio Pompêo | ... | Zumbi (as Antonio Pompeu) |
| Telma Reston | ||
| Adalberto Silva | ||
| Eduardo Silva | ||
| Joel Silva | ||
| Joffre Soares | ... | Caninde |
| Sandro Solviatti | ||
| Paulo Henrique Souto | ||
| Tony Tornado | ... | Ganga Zumba |
| Dona Zica |
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119 min | USA:114 min
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This film tells the true story of escaped black slaves who found their own mountain-top commune as free men in 17th-century Brazil. The story is interesting and edifying. However, this film -- as a film -- is terrible.
The soundtrack is not period music or tribal music. It is Afro-Brazilian pop music from the early 1980s. Battle scenes are fought to the sounds of cheesy pop rhythms best left to the disco or bad cops dramas. Admittedly, the lyrics are folk-ish tales of the slaves' heroism. The special effects are absurd. Rather than invoke the mysticism of African religion and atavistic beliefs, they merely make the film look cheap. They are completely unbelievable, and I don't mean merely in a sense of verisimilitude.
Life within the commune of Palmares could not have been the way it is portrayed in the film. For this society, as shown in the film, is one-part kibbutz, one-part Afro-pop festival. Moreover, it is almost embarrassing to watch the director play upon the clichés of blacks as talented singers and dancers who simply want to be happy. He portrays daily life as a series of dance parties in which the freed slaves paint themselves bright colors and whirl around to the strains of '80s pop music. On the other hand, they have an abundance of beautiful food, but the viewer hardly sees any work being done. The king inveighs against private property in a hackneyed and clichéd way. When a man complains that people are taking the vegetables that he has grown over many months, the king says, "What comes from the earth belongs to everyone, as the earth belongs to no one. If they need food, they have a right to take yours."
I am glad that I learned about this episode in history, but I am relieved that a film with such low production values and that trades upon such worn stereotypes would likely not be made today.