Leon Hirszman - São Bernardo (1972)

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Optional subtitles on MKV: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese-Br
Includes interviews with the cast and crew, also subtitled in the languages mentioned above.

SYNOPSIS:

Based on Graciliano Ramos' novel, SAO BERNARDO tells the story of Paulo Honorio, who rises from utter poverty to achieve his goal of becoming master of the plantation, named Sao Bernardo, where he has formerly been brutalized as a hired hand. His methods of advancement range from petty cheating to bribery and murder. Having achieved some of his goals, Paulo marries a schoolteacher for the respectability she can bring him and because he needs an heir. Accustomed as he is to the master-slave relationship, Paulo cannot comprehend his wife, nor can he deal with the feelings of tenderness she arouses in him. Seeing her through the prism of his possessiveness, he poisons her life with jealousy and finally drives her to suicide. Ultimately, he discovers, he has been impoverished by his wealth and unmanned by his machismo. His social progress has been exposed as a long march toward solitude and emotional desolation.
While SAO BERNARDO on one level makes a universal statement about the relations between property and personality, on another it makes a very specific statement about Brazil. Paulo forms a kind of grotesque double of the military regime in Brazil. He comes to power through force and intimidation, bribery and murder. He practices arbitrary rule ("I don't have to explain anything to anybody") and hysterical anticommunism. SAO BERNARDO also demystifies the "Brazilian economic miracle" of the early seventies. The film exposes the miracle for what it was — a cruel deception. Paulo rises economically by a kind of miracle, but the miracle benefits only himself, just as the Brazilian economic miracle enriched only an elite few. If SAO BERNARDO is, as its director claims, "a concrete analysis of a concrete situation," the terms of its analysis can be extended from a plantation in the twenties to present-day Brazil as a whole.
Leon Hirzman calls Paulo a kind of living fossil, an agent of the prehistory in which we are all living." SAO BERNARDO anatomizes the effects of acquisitiveness on the human personality. As a probing analysis of social alienation, and as a film in which every image and sound is thought politically, without ever becoming inaccessible or propagandistic, SAO BERNARDO is an important film not only for Brazilians but also for North Americans. — Robert Stam from Jump Cut, no. 22, May 1980, pp. 22-24

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