Vidas Secas (Nelson Pereira dos santos - 1963) - Full DVD

Vidas Secas (Barren Lives) is the cornerstone of the Cinema Novo movement. Derived from Graciliano Ramos' eponymous novel, this Brazilian Grapes of Wrath is set in the early 1940s, and describes two years in the life of an itinerant cowhand's family struggling to eke out an existence in the drought-ravaged, landowner-dominated sertão of the country's Northeast. The film is stark in its imagery and a powerful documentation of the uprooted. At the time of its theatrical release, Vidas Secas was considered the absolute last word as a realistic film depiction of the wretched earth. Today it somehow seems much more - a white-hot, almost mystically intense pilgrim's progress through an unending purgatory with no other side.


IMDb.............: tt0057654

Year.............: 1963
Runtime..........: 110 Minutes
Country..........: Brazil
Audio............: Portuguese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Subtitles........: English
Video Format.....: NTSC
Aspect Ratio.....: 1.33:1
DVD Source.......: DVD9
DVD Format.......: Fullscreen
DVD Distributor..: New Yorker Films
Program..........: DVD Decrypter
Bit Rate.........: 7.45 Mb/sec

Menus............: [x] Untouched, intact.
Video............: [x] Untouched, intact.
DVD-Audio........: [x] Untouched, intact.
DVD-Extras.......: [x] Untouched, intact.

Edition Details:
• Short Film, Baleia the Dog (19:54)
• Discussion with Robert Stam, Co-Editor of Brazilian Cinema (12:21)
• Various Trailers

Posted originally at Cinamatik by TheProvider.