A lost masterpiece resurrected from vinegar syndrome — Brazilian Cinema Novo gets its glow-up.
Extras from the remastered DVD of the film São Bernardo by Leon Hirszman. The process of restoring the film, with testimonials from actors and the film's technical team.
Direction
Lauro Escorel crafts elegiac tribute to his father's work
Editing
Seamless weaving of archival decay and digital rebirth
Production
Painstaking frame-by-frame resurrection of 1972 original
Director
Lauro Escorel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cinema Novo was Brazil's radical 1960s movement, and São Bernardo was its bitter class-war masterpiece — this doc preserves that revolutionary fire.
Caetano Veloso appears here because Tropicalismo and Cinema Novo were deeply intertwined — the restoration becomes a reunion of Brazil's most radical 60s minds.
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