Hunger for Love
6.1
An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive
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Cast
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Leila Diniz
Ulla
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The Alienist
Arduíno Colassanti
Felipe
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Amazônia
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
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Red Mandacaru
Garden of War
Rafael Justo Valverde
Antônio Cristiano
Irene Stefânia
Mariana
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Suburban Angels
Cleo e Daniel
Dib Lutfi
Luiz Carlos Ripper
Paulo Porto
Alfredo
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All Nudity Shall Be Punished
As Borboletas Também Amam
Guilherme Magalhães Vaz
Herbert Richers
Guilherme Figueiredo
Nelson Pereira dos Santos Director · Guilherme Figueiredo Story Guilherme Magalhães Vaz Composer
United States release March 1, 1973 · Produced in Brazil · Languages English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Production
Herbert Richers
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Brazil
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Original title
Fome de Amor
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
English · Italian · Portuguese · Spanish
Release dates
Germany · June 1, 1968
Berlin International Film Festival
Brazil · October 15, 1968
Theatrical · Cinemateca
United States · March 1, 1973
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