Shot in 1959 and completed in 1961, Baravento was Rocha's first full-length film. A fiction documented à la Rouch, the action is located in a fishing village. There is the question of superstitions at the service of characters who maintain oppression over the whole village, and tortuous paths for in secouer the joug. Clearly inspired by Eisenstein, in its lyrical aesthetic and political educational aims, this film marks a powerful debut but also provides a glimpse of the themes and an ambition that the future work would develop more fully and with a more specific writing style.

A film by Glauber ROCHA

Brazil, 1961, Colour, 35 mm, 80'- Original version: portuguese.

Photography: Tony Rabatony.
Editing: Nelson Pereira dos Santos.
Casting: Aldo Teixeira, Luiza Maranhao, Antônio Sampaio, Lucy Carvalho, Lidio Silva, Rosalvo Plinio, Alaïr Liquori, Antônio Carlos

Production : Igmu Films.
Distribution : Films sans frontières