Marlon Brando, Evaristo Marquez, Norman Hill
A Caribbean island in the mid-1800's. Nature has made it a paradise; man has made it a hell. Slaves on vast Portuguese sugar plantations are ready to turn their misery into rebellion - and the British...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 8, 2005
Stats: 84 reviews
An outstanding film, one of the unheard of Brando films, a young Brando at that. I came across a review in Shock Cinema Magazine the reason I got this film, and it was everything I expected by the review. Brando plays a agent for the British Government in the 1800's and he starts...( read more)
In some areas, this film actually manages to be a progression from Pontecorvo's masterpiece Battle of Algiers, but unfortunately, the 'sinking lips' mask what may have been great performances making it hard to engage with the characters. The audio quality is most disappointing wi...( read more)
Most thought-provoking film I've seen on the slave trade, colonialism and it's after effects. It pulls no punches. Includes an underrated and complex performance by Marlon Brando.
Set in the mid-19th century on the Carribean island of Queimada. The film is divided into two halves. In the first part, Queimada is a Portuguese colony. Marlon Brando, an agent of the English government, arrives and promptly instigates a coup that places the sugar cane plantatio...( read more)
Director Gillo Pontecorvo makes a wise choice in his employment of a gritty, bare-bones visual style for this picture. It serves very well to soak up the atmosphere and establish a strong mood. This is a terrific story, and it could have been a great movie, but unfortunately it's...( read more)
Pontecorvo con Queimada gira un film politico in cui non si sottrae di certo a mostrare, coraggiosamente direi visto gli anni in cui è stato girato, il suo punto di vista.Partendo da questo presupposto nel film, apertamente di sinistra, basato su una storia inventata illustra tut...( read more)
I can't tell if Brando had an accent in this movie he also looked pretty haggard
Brando gives a very underrated performance. Besides it being slightly historically inaccurate (Portuguese in the Caribbean?) the film explores more narratively many themes Gillo Pontecorvo covered in Battle of Algiers. Brando, as usual, leaps off the screen as an English politic...( read more)
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