Iracema An Amazonian Transaction [OmeU], Brazil, 1974, R: Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna, 90 Min

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In contrast with the official propaganda of the military rule which boasted of an expanding country with the construction of the Transamazônica Highway, a sensitive camera discloses the problems the highway would bring to the area: deforestation, burnings, slave labor, and child prostitution. In a work that blends documentary and fiction, a small cinema crew enters the Amazon to shoot a movie with huge formal freedom.

A thread of plot: a trucker, Tião Brasil Grande (Paulo César Pereio), meets a young prostitute, Iracema (Edna de Cássia). Together they travel across the Amazon, then a national security region under strict military control, acting with residents and interacting with other performers. Mit freundlicher Unterstützung: Cinemateca Brasileira, Embassy of Brazil in Berlin, Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam