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Antonio das Mortes

Original title: O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro
  • 19691969
  • 1h 40m
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7.0/10
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Antonio das Mortes (1969)
ActionCrimeDrama
In this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventual... Read allIn this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.In this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.
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    • Glauber Rocha
    • Glauber Rocha
  • Stars
    • Maurício do Valle
    • Odete Lara
    • Othon Bastos
    • Glauber Rocha
    • Glauber Rocha
  • Stars
    • Maurício do Valle
    • Odete Lara
    • Othon Bastos
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    • 8User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    Antonio das Mortes (1969)
    Rosa Maria Penna in Antonio das Mortes (1969)
    Othon Bastos in Antonio das Mortes (1969)
    Maurício do Valle, Lorival Pariz, and Rosa Maria Penna in Antonio das Mortes (1969)
    Othon Bastos and Maurício do Valle in Antonio das Mortes (1969)
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    Maurício do Valle
    • Antonio das Mortes
    Odete Lara
    • Laura
    Othon Bastos
    Othon Bastos
    • Professor
    Hugo Carvana
    Hugo Carvana
    • Delegado Mattos
    Joffre Soares
    Joffre Soares
    • Cel. Horácio
    • (as Jofre Soares)
    Lorival Pariz
    • Coirana
    Rosa Maria Penna
    • Santa Bárbara
    Emmanuel Cavalcanti
    • Padre
    Vinícius Salvatori
    • Mata-Vaca
    Mário Gusmão
    • Antão
    Santi Scaldaferri
    • Batista
    • (as Santi Scalda-Ferri)
    Paulo Lima
    • Mata-Vaca's Deputy
    • (uncredited)
    Conceição Senna
    • Waitress at the Alvorada Bar
    • (uncredited)
      • Glauber Rocha
      • Glauber Rocha
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    • Trivia
      One of Martin Scorsese favorite films.
    • Quotes

      Antonio das Mortes: God made the Land. Satan the fences.

    • Connections
      Featured in Glauber Rocha - Morto/Vivo (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      Antonio das Mortes
      Written & Performed by Sérgio Ricardo

    User reviews8

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    Entangled iconography
    Okay so life is floating with shards of narrative, image, roles, history; obvious stuff that we all use to define self. There's nothing you can pick that doesn't entangle with threads going deeper, everything interdependent. The difference between lesser films and great is the first pick from the surface and arrange neatly into pleasant shape, diversions; great ones from deep within and disentangle the cluster, reveal our place.

    This is muddled as one review here says because it drags out threads from a corner of its own world, it falls on us to familiarize ourselves or not. Dated too, perhaps, because they're political threads we've left behind in their mess as no longer relevant and holding answers, so focus on the effort of revealing a tapestry.

    See here. A mountain bandit, last of his kind, and the bounty hunter hired to kill him, the place is a windswept plateau in a remote area of the Andes. But this is only the tip of the thread plucked from a popular folk legend in Brazil about bandits, as outlaws often are the subject of.

    Now see what the filmmaker pulls out beneath this, the bandit preaching to a poor mob about jailing the jailers and feeding the hungry, against oppression. It was I think Bakhunin who said brigands were the first true revolutionaries, outside confines. A revolutionary then, but in this context the subject of myth, of popular belief in a tradition of heroism.

    More entangling of iconography ahead. Instead of giving us a virtuous hero the way Soviets portrayed their Red Army officers and peasant heroes in the 1920s, he gives us a seething blowhard who proves to be below the heroic circumstances, as so often they do, fraying the symbol with life. No path is cut through oppression and yet it is his failure that inspires by revealing the extent of oppression.

    There's a lot of theatric writhing in all this, dissonant dances, cacophony, this is Rocha's way of fraying everything as he drags it out of pageantry to have life; not as special as Pasolini, similar aim. There's of course a corrupt mayor who has the town in a stranglehold with his stooges, another symbol of oppression this time, but not probed beyond its cruelty.

    No the real character who will have to brood over his place in a world and system where symbols prove to be small is the bounty- hunter, more reflection here. Rocha always questions, reflects in order to. But again how brilliantly he pushes out from the fabric images and iconography that question. The dead body is propped up on a tree as an icon anyway even if the actual person proved below the circumstances. The revolution does take place in the small village, the yoke of tyranny is overthrown, but what shape does it take? Rocha dips his hands in myth again and pulls out a whimsical western shootout with our hero shooting down dozens of henchmen, another iconic image, another narrative of popular belief.

    So a more esoteric subject whereas Pasolini and Herzog strive for cosmic miracle, but as profound and similar in the transformative tangle of reality and myth.

    I want to summarize Rocha here as I conclude my journey through his work with this. His main thrust is always political, not much interesting to me in itself. Ideals are rigid, mere devices on paper, hopeful signposts that turn rebirth into scholasticism. Rocha knows this, incessantly challenges both left and right, attacks the complacent views, demands an ambiguous life. Alert mind that uses politics to question politics, to question image, narrative, belief. So our worldviews are apart in particulars, he entangles the neatly arranged fictions, I'm looking into our ability to float free of fictions; but I'm glad to know him and always impressed by his ardor when our paths cross.
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      • June 14, 1969 (Brazil)
      • France
      • Brazil
      • West Germany
      • United States
      • Portuguese
    • Also known as
      • Milagres, Bahia, Brazil
    • Production companies
      • Mapa Filmes
      • Claude Antoine Films
      • Munich Tele-Pool
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    • 1 hour 40 minutes
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