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Barren Lives
Barren Lives
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BARREN LIVES

Vidas Secas

Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Brazil, 1963
Drama

Synopsis

With a strong sense of compassion for the impoverished and an underlying hatred for the injustice, this is one of the first works from Brazil’s Cinema Novo. A poor Brazilian family struggle to earn a living when they take a job overseeing the livestock of a wealthy rancher.

Synopsis

With a strong sense of compassion for the impoverished and an underlying hatred for the injustice, this is one of the first works from Brazil’s Cinema Novo. A poor Brazilian family struggle to earn a living when they take a job overseeing the livestock of a wealthy rancher.