Filmography
Severed Head

Credits
Glauber speaks...
Review

CREDITS

Original Title: Cabezas Cortadas.Fiction, long length, 35mm, Eastmancolor. Barcelona, Espanha, 1970. 2.600 meters, 95 minutos. Production: Barcelona Profilmes S.A. (Spain), Barcelona Films Contacto (Spain), Mapa Filmes (Brazil); Distribution: Embrafilme; Release in Brazil: 11 June 1979, Rio de Janeiro; Production Directors: José Antônio Perez Giner, Modesto Perez Redondo; Executive Producers: Ricardo Muñoz Suay, Pedro Fages, Juan Palomeras; Production Assistants: Manuel Rubio; Director: Glauber Rocha; Assistant Directors: Ricardo Munoz Suay; Argument: Glauber Rocha; Screenplay: Augusto Martinez Torres, Josefa Pruna; Dialogues in Spanish: Ricardo Munoz Suay; Cinematographer: Jaime Deu Casas; Camera: Carlos Frigola; Sound: Roger Sangenis; Editor: Eduardo Escorel; Scenographer: Fabian Puigserver; Make-up: Cristobal Criado;Titles: Ana Luísa Escorel; Music: Cuesta Abajo, Gardel, Le Pera, Alla en el Rancho Grande, Castello, Del Moral, Uranga, Manresana, Manen, Chamaco Gran Torero, Gomila, Fallaste Corazon, Sanchez, Sabor a mi, Carillo, Buenos Aires, Joves, Romero, Misa Flamenca, La Torre, Torre Grosa; Locations: Biblioteca Nacional de La Diputacion, Barcelona; Rosas, San Pedro de Poda, Castelló de Ampurias, Cadaqués, Cabo de Creus, Port-Lligat; Awards: Prêmio São Saruê, da Federação de Cineclubes do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro/ 1979; Cast: Pierre Clementi - shepherd, Francisco Rabal - Diaz II; Marta May - D. Soledad, Rosa Maria Penna -Dulcinea, Ema Cohen - gipsy, Luis Ciges - beggar, Telesforo Sanchez - priest, Victor Israel - doctor, Carlos Frigola, Carmen Sansa, Emer Cardona, Enrique Majo, Jack Rocha, Jose Jacomet, Jose Ruiz, Jose Torrens, Julian Navarro, Juan Valles, Maria Jesus Andany, Sebastian Camps, Vega Dingo.

"It is a film against the dictatorships, it is the funeral of the dictatorships. I deal with a character who might be the apocalyptic encounter of Perón and Franco in the ruins of the Latin-American civilization. I filmed it at the rocks of Cadaqués, where Buñuel filmed L'Age d'Or. Spain is Europe's Bahia. Cabezas Cortadas dismounts all the dramatic schemes of the theatre and the cinema. The future of the cinema will be sound, light, delirium, that line interrupted since L'Age d'Or. "

REVIEW

"(. . .) Glauber Rocha talks about the history of Latin-America, about Perón, about the Iberians, Moors and Christians, showing Spain as a ruin, as a crazy man who at the moment of dying reestablishes monarchy. He talks about Perón, Franco, Batista, about these dictators who go to Spain in exile, but builds up a dream, materializing the unconscious into sounds and images. And when the unconscious, the dream, irrupts into reality, it is like a machine strange to reality. To Glauber, as André Breton said, "the metaphor has the ability to sculpture the real space, in the chaos of reason". A Greek head, the head of a civilization, the Greco-Roman-Christian one, appears in te mud, cut off.
Glauber builds up a hyperbole. An image forming an audiovisual figure of speech appears on the top of the words of the title Cabezas Cortadas. The head has been severed from a Greek statue. It is inside the head that everything is created, the science, the reasoning. To severe the heads. To severe the ties to reason, to the rational knowledge, to positivism, in order to understand. A cut on the rationalist thought. Passion-reason opposition. "

Morte do Patriarcado (politica e ética.Raquel Gerber in Filme e Cultura n. 34 Rio de Janeiro jan./fev./mar. 1980, p. 36)