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King of the Cards

Nov 3, 1975 · 1h 21m
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Comedy

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In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling "king of the deck", and Marta Anderson, the blond and provocative star of the show, recite in the historical scenario of the chanchadas, the abandoned studios of Cinédia. "The photography is splendid, it is a sort of parallel song, of critique, of parody, of understanding of a certain light typical of Brazilian cinema of the times, already re-created, already stylized. And with the older actors, Otelo, Lewgoy and the others, something very important happened in the artistic perception, seeing again, doing again, it was already a concrete metalanguage" (J. Bressane).

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CAST

Grande Otelo
Rei do Baralho
Marta Anderson
Loira
Wilson Grey
Gambler
Fininho
Gambler
Cauê Filho
Gambler
Elisa
Segunda Loira
Guará Rodrigues
Directed by Júlio Bressane

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Status
Released
Original language
PT
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Production
Julio Bressane Produções Cinematográficas
Country
BR
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