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The Margin (1967)

A Margem (original title)
| Drama, Romance | 1967 (Brazil)
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About people who live by the margins or Rio Tietê, in São Paulo, Brazil.

Director:

Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

Writer:

Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

Stars:

Mário Benvenutti, Valeria Vidal, Bentinho | See full cast & crew »
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Cast overview:
Mário Benvenutti Mário Benvenutti
Valeria Vidal Valeria Vidal
Bentinho Bentinho
Lucy Rangel Lucy Rangel
Tele Kare Tele Kare
Paulo Ramos
Brigitte Maier
Ana F. Mendonça Ana F. Mendonça
Paulo Gaeta Paulo Gaeta
Nelson Gaspari Nelson Gaspari
Virgilio Sampaio Virgilio Sampaio
Dantas Filho Dantas Filho
Luiz Alberto Luiz Alberto
Luciano Pessoa Luciano Pessoa
José Licneraki José Licneraki
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At the riverside of Rio Tiete, in São Paulo, prostitutes, a pimp, a retarded man, a handicap, people in the margin of the society live their ordinary hopeless lives without any expectation and waiting to die and join themselves in the boat of hell. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Release Date:

1967 (Brazil) See more »

Also Known As:

The Margin See more »

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Ozualdo R. Candeias Produções Cinematográficas,Produtora Nacional de Filmes (PNF) See more »
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Timeless, Pointless, Weird and Boring
13 May 2006 | by claudio_carvalho – See all my reviews

At the riverside of Rio Tiete, in São Paulo, prostitutes, a pimp, a retarded man, a handicap, people in the margin of the society live their hopeless lives waiting for the boat of hell.

Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias was a Brazilian director with a humble origin and great identification with the excluded of the society. His debut behind the camera was with this movie, worshiped by students and professionals of cinema due to the unique cinematographic aesthetic. This film was produced in a period of the wave of the Brazilian "Cinema Novo", and Candeias made a revolutionary timeless story without chronology, full of ellipsis, very few dialogs and bizarre characters and situations, as a form of art and not political instrument. Although being original, I personally found "A Margem" pointless, weird and boring. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "A Margem" ("The Margin")
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