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Coronel Delmiro Gouveia

Geraldo Sarno I 1978 I 90'

SYNOPSIS

At the beginning of the 20th century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.

BIOGRAPHY

Geraldo Sarno

GERALDO SARNO (Bahia, Brazil, 1938) is known for dealing with themes such as the Brazilian migration movement (especially in the Northeast), the impact of religions and popular culture. In 1978 he made the masterpiece Colonel Delmiro Gouveia. Sertânia (2020) is his last work to date.

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Critical text

This is the story of a man ahead of his time. One of many who would be lost to history if it were not for films like this one. At the dawn of the First World War, businessman Delmiro Gouveia’s progressive ideas to industrialise the country in the most sustainable and ecological way possible went against the geopolitical interests of the military dictatorship of the First Brazilian Republic.

With his first fiction feature film, Geraldo Sarno became another visionary who, like Gouveia, seems to be interested in improving society with his works. He participated in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and received the Grand Coral for best film at the First Havana International Film Festival in 1979.
MARCOS CASADO

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