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Hunger for Love

Hunger for Love

Drama

1h 13m

October 15, 1968 (56 years ago)

Overview

An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive

ActorAge thenAge now
Leila Diniz

Leila Diniz

Ulla

Birthday: March 25, 1945

23 June 14, 1972 (27)
Arduíno Colassanti

Arduíno Colassanti

Felipe

Birthday: February 15, 1936

32 February 22, 2014 (78)
Irene Stefânia

Irene Stefânia

Mariana

Birthday: March 10, 1944

24 January 5, 2017 (72)
Paulo Porto

Paulo Porto

Alfredo

Birthday: September 1, 1917

51 July 3, 1999 (81)
Manfredo Colassanti

Manfredo Colassanti

-

Birthday: November 6, 1902

65 November 19, 1983 (81)
Neville D'Almeida

Neville D'Almeida

-

Birthday: May 15, 1941

2784
Lia Rossi

Lia Rossi

-

Birthday: November 16, 1945

22 September 13, 2018 (72)
Olga Danitch

Olga Danitch

-

Birthday: -

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