FREE ON YOUTUBE Glauber Rocha - Antonio Da Mortes

I have always believed that no one wants to buy low quality for a high price. That's why I'm sure nobody needs a Netflix subscription. YouTube is the only place where so many films are free and in good quality on YouTube! That's why I collected exactly these movies on cinegeek.de and linked them for you. FREE ON YOUTUBE  What traps are there if you want to make a political film? First, the tendency to self-satisfaction. A very little liberal and therefore unsympathetic way of thinking. Secondly. The emphasis on the historical context, because that would quickly make your film forget. And who should remember the specific context in the future? Who knows, perhaps there are so few political films because of these two traps? Let's think back to the time of the Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha. To the time around 1968, when film scholars in particular demanded that FILM be the image of society. FILM should draw attention to social and political grievances. Particularly important at that time in Brazil (and in South America as a whole) was the rejection of American cinema! What alternative did you have to produce as your own films? That's how Cinema Nuvo was born. Representation of the social reality of Brazil. Filmed on the streets, in the slums with amateur actors. Cinema Nuvo sees itself as Anti Hollywood with its genre stencils. Cinema Nuvo is REVOLUTIONARY! In Antonio das Mortes he ennobles Brazil's dark and bloody history with his military dictatorships. Antonio is the Man of the Dead (borrowed from Rocha's second feature film). It's about ruthless warfare, but also about myth, religion and fantasy. The story of a contract killer who turns into a revolutionary. He is commissioned to kill the "Cangaceiro", but at the end of his mission he realizes who the true enemy is: the big landowners. For our eyes Antonio Da Mortes seems bulky and unusual with his long shots and strange cuts. My reaction: What's going on here? And yet I was tied up! Isn't it the case that such films change our perception of cinema forever? Then there's the mission of the video store: How do I get a cultivated DVD version? Back then, during the founding of our film art bar Fitzcarraldo, I became aware of the Swiss DVD distributor Trigon Film. The program included above all films from South America. Glauber Rocha with German subtitles! I had searched in vain before. That's why I immediately ordered all available titles for a nice sum, because after all they were Swiss export DVDs. Those that get stuck in our customs. I had to drive to Schöneberg, where you could wait in a customs hall. The whole afternoon. Torturing! They handed me the DVDs, calculated the value added tax and customs duties. Finally I could enter them and put them on the shelves for you. Result: Hardly anyone was interested in Glauber Rocha. Who knows, maybe this will change now, because you don't have to get Antonio Da Mortes from Schöneberg, but can watch him in good quality with English subtitles on YouTube?