Black God, White Devil

Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol Brasil 1964 Regi og manus Glauber Rocha 2t Bluray Portugisisk tale, engelsk tekst

Myth, mysticism, and revolution collide in a blistering existential Western from Glauber Rocha, a pioneer of Brazil’s socially committed Cinema Novo movement. 

After killing his swindling boss, ranch hand Manoel (Geraldo Del Rey) goes on the run with his wife, Rosa (Yoná Magalhães). In the stark, drought-ridden hinterlands of northern Brazil, they join forces with armed bandits and pledge allegiance to a self-styled holy man who preaches revolt against rich landowners while perpetrating unspeakable acts of violence against the innocent. Meanwhile, the authorities hire a gunman known as Antonio Das Mortes to track down the now-outlawed couple.

In the history of Brazilian cinema, Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) has had such a profound impact that it continues to project a miraculous aura more than half a century after its release. Director Glauber Rocha—who was only twenty-four years old when the film was shot—had already completed an experimental short (1959’s Pátio) and a feature (1962’s Barravento) before he began making this ambitious work. In many ways, however, Black God, White Devil has the power of an electrifying debut, one that announced the arrival not only of a brilliant filmmaker but also of a new phase in Brazilian cinema and art. Along with Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s Barren Lives and Paulo César Saraceni’s Porto das Caixas (both 1963), Rocha’s breakthrough manifested the project of Cinema Novo, a new wave that sought to overcome the influence of Brazil’s colonial origins and find images and sounds that could reconceive the nation.

Nominated for the Palme d’Or and winning the International Critics’s Prize upon its premiere at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, the film has amassed an impressive array of plaudits in the years since its release. It has been hailed by such luminaries as Michelangelo Antonioni, Bong Joon-ho, and Luis Buñuel, who called the film, "[t]he most beautiful thing I have seen in a decade—filled with poetic savagery." It was voted one of the greatest Brazilian films of all time by Abraccine, the Brazilian Film Critics Association, in its list of the country’s 100 best films, compiled in 2015.

Suffused with anti-authoritarian fervor and the intensity of life in the desert, this landmark work of radical cinema is a scorched-earth allegory about mindless fanaticism and the allure of dead-end ideologies.

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