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The life of Pedro Arcanjo, self-taught mestizo intellectual who in the first decades of the XXth century challenged racist ideas of the School of Medicine of Bahia and highlighted the importance of the blacks' contribution to Braz...
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"Directed by master filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos and adapted from a novel by great writer Jorge Amado, this is a non-linear movie full of clever moments, and it is quite sensorial in its colors and sounds. Nelson Pereira dos Santos has shown very well African Brazilian religion in other films, but this one is probably where it appears more, and more beautifully, in more details. It is a film that explores all the complexity and shadows of racism in Brazil and particularly in Bahia, the "blackest" state of Brazil. Another issue that is perfectly addresses is a very up-to-date di..."
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Official submission from Brazil as Best Foreign Film to the 1978's Oscar.
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The life of Pedro Arcanjo, self-taught mestizo intellectual who in the first decades of the XXth century challenged racist ideas of the School of Medicine of Bahia and highlighted the importance of the blacks' contribution to Braz...