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The Lion Has Seven Heads

1971 · 103 min Drama
5.9 / 10 · TMDB

A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.

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Original Title Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças
Year 1971
Country Brazil, France, Italy
Genre Drama
Director Glauber Rocha
Runtime 103 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.9/10 (28 votes)

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Glauber Rocha constructs the film as a furious, almost manifesto-like pamphlet, relying on a language of metaphor and overt theatricality. It explores the mechanisms of neocolonialism, where ideologies are merely tools for some and dead ends for others.

What lingers after viewing is not a conventional story, but an explosive mix of documentary aesthetics, circus, and political poster art, leaving behind a bitter aftertaste of ironic prophecy. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Glauber Rocha

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Watch attentively as an arthouse manifesto, ideally followed by a discussion on post-colonial theory.

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