Macuna%C3%ADma (film)

Macunama is a 1969 Brazilian comedy film directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, based on Mario de Andrades novel of the same name. It was released in a dubbed version for American audiences in 1972 by New Line Cinema. On Juneand July 12, 2005, European and Latin American syndicates of the TV5 network aired the film in its original Portuguese with French subtitles. It was rereleased internationally in 2009.

Then, thanks to an affair with a white lady, guerrilla killer Ci Dina Sfat, the films hero fathers a black boy Grande Otelo with her. When both mother and child die, he embarks on a quest to recover a magical stone from a rich city dweller. In this film, the essentialist myth of theBrazilian races, white, black, and the original natives of Brazil, is supposed to be represented through the protagonist, his brothers, and his mother.Throughout his adventures, Macunama learns some tough lessons about Brazilian life and society. Macunaima functions as an allegorical representation of the turmoil of the Brazilian military coup that had ensued. ........

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