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Mar 28, 1986 · Quilombo: Directed by Carlos Diegues. With Bené Batista, Jonas Bloch, Zózimo Bulbul, Emmanuel Cavalcanti. Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil.
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- Carlos Diegues
- 1986-03-28
"Quilombo" is Carlos Diegues's new film about the century-long rise and fall of Palmares, but it is not simply a historical epic. Advertisement Diegues, like many South American storytellers, moves easily between dream and reality, between fact and myth.
Quilombo is a 1984 Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Diegues. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. The film is based on the history of the Quilombo dos Palmares, a community of escaped slaves that numbered in the thousands during the 17th century in north-eastern Brazil.
Mar 28, 1986 · In ''Xica,'' Mr. Diegues recalled the story of the beautiful black slave who, as the mistress to the Portuguese king's diamond supplier, became the richest, most powerful...
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Jun 20, 1986 · It is Brazilian film maker Carlos Diegues' gift to be able to create entrancing, sensual film epics from his country's tumultuous experience.
In Quilombo, Diegues creates a utopian vision of a time when property was distributed equally amongst a diverse group of Blacks, native Brazilians and wronged Whites—a true “racial democracy.”
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Aug 9, 2021 · The principal problem with this colorful, sweeping but ultimately bothersome film is that director Carlos Diegues is unable to cut a clear path through his work.
