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Filmography
Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças

CREDITS

Original Title: Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças.Fiction, Long-length, 35mm, Eastmancolor, 2.600 meters, 95 minutes. Rome, Italy, 1970. Production: Polifilm; Producers: Gianni Barcelloni, Claude Antoine; Production Director: Giancarlo Santi; Production Manager: Marco Ferreri; Director: Glauber Rocha; Assistant Director: André Gouveia; Argument and Screenplay: Gianni Amico, Glauber Rocha; Cinematographer: Guido Cosulich; Sound: José Antônio Ventura; Editors: Eduardo Escorel, Glauber Rocha; Titles: Francesco Altan; Music: African folklore, Baden Powell and a version of the French Nacional Anthem sung by Clementina de Jesus; Locations: Congo Brazzaville; Dedicated to: Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes.Cast: Rada Rassimov - Marlene, Jean-Pierre Léaud - preacher, Giulio Brogi - Pablo, Hugo Carvana - Portuguese man, Gabrielle Tinti - American agent, René Koldhoffer - governor, Baiack - Zumbi, Miguel Samba - Samba, André Segolo - Xobu, Aldo Bixio - mercenary; and the people and dancers of Congo.

"It is an overall story of the Euro-American colonialism in Africa, an African epic, concerned with thinking from the point of view of the man of the Third World, in opposition to the commercial American movies which show safaris and to the white's conception in relation to that continent. It is a theory about the possibility of a political cinema. I chose Africa because it seems to me a continent with problems similar to the Brazilian ones."

REVIEW

"(...) Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças is an Italian-French co-production, filmed in Africa. Glauber says that it intends to be an "elaborated denunciation of the colonialism and of the underdevelopment". It presents a red Europe and an American secret agent, also red, enslaved to each other in a tropical country. The colonialists keep the blacks as slaves. In this world, also dwell a Portuguese priest and a German mercenary.
A revolution is stifled in a bloody way and the reds decide, with their friends, to empower a representative of the African bourgeoisie. Thus, they elect Mr. Xobu president of the country. But an African rebel and a Latin-American guerilla organize a new revolution. The whites, probably defeated, are taken to the scaffold while, from the jungle, symbolic lines of blacks sing: oh africa, oh africa... (...) "

Jornal da Tarde, Salvador, 26/06/70