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Manuel 'Jacare' Olimpio Meira | ... |
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Jeronimo André De Souza | ... |
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Raimundo 'Tata' Correia Lima | ... |
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Manuel 'Preto' Pereira Da Silva | ... |
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Jose Sobrinho | ... |
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Francisca Moreira Da Silva | ... |
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| Miguel Ferrer | ... |
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| Carmen Miranda | ... |
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Edmar Morel | ... |
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Grande Otelo | ... |
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A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.
From "This Is Orson Welles" by Bogdanovich
On the film:
"I've never seen any of what we shot, not a foot. Nobody ever saw the rushes."
On filming in South America:
"I didn't even like it particularly. I liked samba, but I didn't want to go down and live in South America--it's my least favorite part of the world."
On filming:
"I had this enormous crew sent down--I didn't want them, but they gave me two camera crews. So I'd sent a crew out there and said, 'Shoot 'em marching up and down.' I had to keep them busy; they were always saying, 'We want to get home--we're trapped here.'...So there must have been an awful lot of junk shot, because I wasn't even there."