Iracema
A raw showing of the Transamazonic Road
19761h 36mNo ratings yet
- Drama
Overview
A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by Brazilian censors. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.
Keywords
- road movie
- prostitution
- poverty
- truck driver
- amazon rainforest
- wood
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 2, 1976
- Original language
- Portuguese
- Spoken languages
- Portuguese
- Countries
- Brazil, Germany
- Production
- ZDF,Embrafilme,Stop Film,Stopfilm
- Cast
- Edna de Cássia,Paulo César Peréio,Conceição Senna,Rose Rodrigues,Fernando Neves,Sidnei Piñon,Natal,Elma Martins,Wilmar Nunes,Lúcio dos Santosand 2 more
- Director
- Jorge Bodanzky,Orlando Senna
- Producer
- Malu Alencar,Achim Tappen,Orlando Senna
- Cinematography
- Jorge Bodanzky
- Music
- Achim Tappen
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0126968