The Lion Has Seven Heads

1970 [PORTUGUESE]

Drama

3
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 508 508

Plot summary

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.

Director

Glauber Rocha Photo
Glauber Rocha

Top cast

Hugo Carvana Photo
Hugo Carvana as Portuguese
Rada Rassimov Photo
Rada Rassimov as Marlene
Jean-Pierre Léaud Photo
Jean-Pierre Léaud as Preacher
Rosa Maria Penna Photo
Rosa Maria Penna
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912.24 MB
1188*720
Portuguese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
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1.65 GB
1782*1080
Portuguese 2.0
NR
Subtitles de   us   es   fr   it   nl   pt   tr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Dockelektro

Tripped Out Journey

Expected nothing when I was going to see it, came out with something. As tough and extreme this movie is, the message is suprisingly clear and straight-forward. Liked a few shots, and its kind of theatrical presentation of events (no paralel editing, for example). Has some poignancy and many ideas. Great movie.
Reviewed by cervovolante 5 / 10

certainly not on the level of Godard!

I just saw this film in the cinema of the Austrian Film Museum and have to in one point contradict the reviewer from San Francisco: at least in Vienna, this film was IN COLOR. Theatrical tableaux, sometimes containing strong images, strung together with a generally only mediocre sense for time flow. It sometimes reminded me of the more didactic films of Godard, but often failed to come up to the technical level present even in Godard's most recondite efforts. Now and then I felt I was perhaps getting new insights; in other parts of the film I was just horribly bored and felt the director had little sense of how to effectively shape his material. Certainly no masterpiece, but, at any rate, I did wind up wanting to learn more about Glauber Rocha.
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