The Murdered House

A Casa Assassinada

Brazil

1971

103 Min

Color

2.35:1

Portuguese

Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Mário Carneiro, Paulo Cesar Saraceni, Sergio Saraceni

SCR Lúcio Cardoso, Paulo Cesar Saraceni

CAST Rubens Araújo, Norma Bengell, Nelson Dantas, Joseph Guerreiro, Leina Krespi, Carlos Kroeber, Augusto Lorenzo, Tetê Medina, Nuno Veloso

A newlywed arrives at her husband’s family house in the country. The heavy atmosphere of the house frightens her, and she takes refuge in her homosexual son-in-law’s room, who is kept locked and hidden from society. A tragedy occurs, causing her departure. She’s only to return seventeen years later, and sick. —IMDb

Director

Paulo Cesar Saraceni

Paulo César Saraceni was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1933. He is one of the most important directors of Brazilian Cinema Novo. In 1961 he attended courses at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, and the following year he directed Porto das Caixas, his first full-length movie. He presented his film O Viajante at the 1999 Torino Film Festival. —Torino Film Festival