The Fall (1976)
Overview
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
Overview
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
Genres
Release Date
August 20, 1976
Rating
Runtime
1h 46m
Nelson Xavier
Mário
Lima Duarte
Salatiel
Isabel Ribeiro
Laura
Maria Silvia
Lindalva
Hugo Carvana
José
Leina Krespi
Fernando Peixoto
Helber Rangel
Alfredo
Luis Pellegrini
Álvaro Freire
Luiz Rosemberg Filho
Assessor
Roberto Frota
Assessor
Tonico Pereira
Tonho
Saul Lachtermacher
Ivan de Souza
Jurandyr Ferreira
Perfeito Fortuna
Paulo César Peréio
Pedro
Cosme dos Santos
Operário
Leonidas Bayer
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