Der Fall
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.
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Genres
Drama
Release
1976-08-20
Cast
Nelson Xavier
Mário
Lima Duarte
Salatiel
Isabel Ribeiro
Laura
Maria Silvia
Lindalva
Hugo Carvana
José
Helber Rangel
Alfredo
Tonico Pereira
Tonho
Paulo César Peréio
Pedro
Cosme dos Santos
Operário
Luiz Rosemberg Filho
Assessor
Roberto Frota
Assessor
Carlos Eduardo Novaes
Leina Krespi
Fernando Peixoto
Perfeito Fortuna
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