Cinema
O homem que virou suco
João Batista de Andrade · 1980
Synopsis
Deraldo, a poet from the Nordeste, lives in São Paulo from the sale of his poems and his cordel leaflets. At the party where a worker at a multinational is honoured as model worker, he kills his boss, and the police take Deraldo for the murderer. Hunted, he has to hide and loses even his identity. He then comes to know the life of the Nordeste migrants in the metropolis: building sites, domestic jobs, wandering in the metro, humiliation and exploitation.
Context
Released on 13 December 1980, the film gives José Dumont the double role of the poet Deraldo and the worker Severino, alongside Célia Maracajá. The director deals in it with the survival of migrants from the Nordeste in the São Paulo metropolis. The film received the gold medal of the Moscow International Film Festival in 1981 and, in 1982, a critics' prize at Nevers according to IstoÉ Dinheiro; other awards followed at Gramado and Brasília.
Who it is for
A film of ninety-seven minutes, in the Portuguese of the Nordeste and of São Paulo, on the condition of migrants.
Prizes and reception
Honoured in Moscow in 1981, the film earned José Dumont several acting awards.
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