The Fall
7.5
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
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Cast
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Nelson Xavier
Mário
Known for
Chico Xavier
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Lima Duarte
Salatiel
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O Auto da Compadecida
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Isabel Ribeiro
Laura
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O Rebu
Saint Bernard
Maria Silvia
Lindalva
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Tower of Babel
Memorial de Maria Moura
Hugo Carvana
José
Known for
God Is Brazilian
Entranced Earth
Leina Krespi
Known for
Crystal Moon
Fernando Peixoto
Known for
They Don't Wear Black Tie
Helber Rangel
Alfredo
Also in
Golden Years
Lampião e Maria Bonita
Luis Pellegrini
Also in
O Mundo Alegre de Helô
Álvaro Freire
Also in
Kananga do Japão
A, E, I, O... Urca
Luiz Rosemberg Filho
Assessor
Also in
Rosemberg - Cinema, Colagem e Afetos
A Lost Woman
Roberto Frota
Assessor
Known for
A Terra Prometida
Ruy Guerra Director · Nelson Xavier Director Edgar Moura Cinematographer
First release August 20, 1976 · Produced in Brazil · Production Daga Filmes
Production
Zoom Cinematográfica
Production
Daga Filmes
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Brazil
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Languages
Original title
A Queda
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
Release dates
Brazil · August 20, 1976
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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