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King of the Cards (1975)

King of the Cards (1975)

Comedy
Release Date: 1975, November 3
Directors: Júlio Bressane
Countries: Brazil
Production: Julio Bressane Produções Cinematográficas
Cast: Elisa, Grande Otelo, Wilson Grey, Marta Anderson, Fininho, Cauê Filho

Overview:

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).