Cabra marcado para morrer
Brazil,
1984, 119 min
Shown in 1985
CREDITS
- dir
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Eduardo do Coutinho
- prod
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Zelito Vina
- cast
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Elizabeth Teixeira, Joao Vorginilfilba
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COMMENTS
Eduardo do Coutinho in person.
Hailed as a major discovery at the recent Rio and Berlin Festivals, this documentary on assassinated peasant leader Joao Pedro Teixeira was begun in 1964 but was interrupted by the military coup that year. Now, two decades later, director Coutinho has managed to track down his original subjects—among them, Teixeira’s widow. The finished film moves back and forth between past and present and between fact and fiction. “The miracle of this film is not that is got finished after 20 years, but the way it treats those 20 years. It is a totally unique event—a film about the making of an unfinished film in which the actors of the past are the protagonists of the present. Ultimately, the film turns reality back upon itself, becoming the instrument both for Teixeira’s widow coming out of forced anonymity and exile, and her eventual reconciliation with her dispersed family. What is new about this film is precisely its complicity with life.”
—Denis W. De La Roca
FACTOID #273
In 2006 the Festival widened its scope, screening films at seven satellite venues throughout the city including an arts venue (Intersection for the Arts), a pub (Edinburgh Castle) and a fire station (San Francisco Fire Station #7).
