13 Oct 1989
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
Imagens
It confronts the regime’s brutality nd the silence imposed on anyone who spoke out against it.
Without any sounds, dialogues and with unknown actors, the images are the focus of this film. Images that want to awake, to question determinant moments, state of a system's languages, the morality of deaths, the immobility, the silence, among other subjects. Shot at the height of the Brazilian military dictatorship, it is an affront to the most diverse types of repression in that period.
Top Billed Cast
Sônia Andrade Alvim Barbosa Echio Reis Fabíola Fracaroli Fernando do Amaral Piccinini Grécia Vanicori
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