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Vidas sêcas
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- Summary
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Depicts the struggle for existence in two years in the life of an itinerant Brazilian cowhand's family struggling to eke out an existence in the drought-ravaged, landowner-dominated sertão of the c...
Depicts the struggle for existence in two years in the life of an itinerant Brazilian cowhand's family struggling to eke out an existence in the drought-ravaged, landowner-dominated sertão of the country's Northeast.
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- Creator
- Herbert Richers apresenta ; de Graciliano Ramos ; produção, Luiz Carlos Barreto, Herbert Richers, Danilo Trelles ; adaptação e roteiro Nelson Pereira dos Santos ; direção Nelson Pereira dos Santos
- Other Title
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- U.S. release title: Barren lives
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- Portuguese
- Contributors
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- Santos, Nelson Pereira dos, 1928-2018, film director, screenwriter
- Barreto, Luiz Carlos, film producer
- Trelles, Danilo. film producer
- Ramos, Graciliano, 1892-1953, author. Vidas secas
- Richers, Herbert, 1923-2009, film producer
- Bernardet, Jean Claude, writer of supplementary textual content
- Avellar, José Carlos. writer of supplementary textual content
- Bressane, Júlio. writer of supplementary textual content
- Iório, Átila, 1921-2002, actor
- Ribeiro, Maria (Actor) actor
- Lima, Gilvan. actor
- Lima, Genivaldo. actor
- Soares, Jofre, 1918-1996, actor
- Macedo, Orlando. actor
- Stam, Robert, 1941-
- Ramos, Graciliano, 1892-1953. Vidas secas
- Bretz Filmes (Firm)
- Instituto Moreira Salles
- Publication
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- [Brazil] : Bretz Filmes, 2013
- Manaus : Produzido e distribuido por AMZ Midia Industrial S.A
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
- digital optical
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 4
- OCLC
- ocn876047067
- Credits
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- Átila Iório, Maria Ribeiro, Gilvan Lima, Genivaldo Lima, Orlando Macedo, Jofre Soares
- Fotografia, Luiz Carlos Barreto, José Rosa ; montagem, Rafael Valverde ; música, Leonardo Alencar
- Based on the book Vidas sêcas by Graciliano Ramos.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.
- Booklet includes critical essays on the film by Jean Claude Bernardet, José Carlos Avellar and Júlio Bressane, as well as a biography of director Nelson Pereira dos Santos.
- DVD, Region 4.
- In Portuguese.
Subjects
- Brazil, Northeast -- Social conditions -- Drama.
- Brazil, Northeast -- Economic conditions -- Drama.
- Droughts -- Brazil, Northeast -- Drama.
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- Brazil, Northeast -- Drama.
- Migrant laborers' families -- Brazil, Northeast -- Drama.
- Migrant laborers' spouses -- Brazil, Northeast -- Drama.
- Children of migrant laborers -- Brazil, Northeast -- Drama.
- Internal migrants -- Brazil, Northeast -- Drama.