Burn!
Burn Italian Queimada is a 1969 ItalianFrench war drama film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and starring Marlon Brando, Evaristo Mrquez and Renato Salvatori. The music was composed by Ennio Morricone. The fictional story focuses on the creation of a banana republic in the Caribbean, and the events that follow it. Brando plays a British secret government agent, named after the American filibuster William Walker, who manipulates a slave revolt to serve the interests of the sugar trade.
When he arrives in Queimada, Walker befriends Jos Dolores Mrquez, whom he entices to lead the slave revolt, and induces leading landowners to reject Portuguese rule. Doloress rebellion is successful, and Walker arranges the assassination of the Portuguese governor in a nighttime coup. Walker establishes a puppet regime beholden to British sugar interests, headed by the idealistic but weak revolutionary Teddy Sanchez Salvatori. Walker convinces Dolores to recognize the new regime and to surrender his arms, in exchange for the abolition of slavery. Having succeeded in his mission, he returns to Britain.Ten years later, Doloresdisgusted by the white governments collaboration with British interestsleads a second uprising, jeopardizing the Antilles Royal Sugar Company. The company returns Walker to Queimada with the consent of the British Admiralty, tasking him with suppressing the revolt and pacifying the island. Resentful of the companys exploitation of Queimada, President Sanchez is uncooperative. Sanchez is ousted and executed in a coup engineered by Walker, who establishes a regime wholly beholden to the company. British forces are invited to the island guided by Walker, they rapidly quell the rebellion and capture Dolores. Walker attempts to save Doloress life but the rebel leader rejects his assistance, asserting that freedom is earned, not received. ........
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