Triste Trópico

APPROPIATE

1974 / 77min.

Rating5

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

In this "fake documentary", a doctor returns to Brazil after his studies in Paris. Setting out to practice Medicine, he becomes an indigenous messiah and, in time, a cannibal.

Directors

Arthur Omar

Actors

Othon Bastos

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