The Fall

Synopsis

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.

Main Cast

Nelson Xavier

Mário

Age : N/A | Popularity : 16%

Lima Duarte

Salatiel

Age : 94 | Popularity : 40%

Isabel Ribeiro

Laura

Age : N/A | Popularity : 23%

Maria Silvia

Lindalva

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Hugo Carvana

José

Age : 77 | Popularity : 19%

Leina Krespi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 14%

Fernando Peixoto

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Helber Rangel

Alfredo

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Ruy Guerra Nelson Xavier
Writing	Writer	Ruy Guerra Nelson Xavier
Editing	Editor	Ruy Guerra
Sound	Music	Ruy Guerra Milton Nascimento
	Sound	Juarez Dagoberto Costa
	Sound Effects	Geraldo José
Art	Production Design	Carlos Prieto
Camera	Director of Photography	Edgar Moura
	Assistant Camera	Antonio Luis Soares
Production	Associate Producer	Tereza Mascarenhas
	Delegated Producer	Nei Sroulevich
	Executive Producer	Alberto Graça
	Production Director	Carlos Alberto Diniz
	Producer	Nei Sroulevich
Costume & Make-Up	Makeup Artist	Carlos Prieto
	Costume Design	Carlos Prieto
Department	Role	Name

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