The Demiurge (1972)

6.0/10 77 min Fantasy

Overview

A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada", Mautner says. He also affirms that the work focuses a lot on the longing for Brazil, on the will that the exiled had to return to their homeland. The idea came from conversations between the musician and his old father, "always talking about the pre-Socratics", he recalls. Glauber Rocha states that "The Demiurge" is the best film "of" and "about" exile.

Cast

Jorge Mautner

Satã

Caetano Veloso

Demiurgo

Gilberto Gil

Gal Costa

Jards Macalé

Norma Bengell

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