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During a ferocious drought, a group of soldiers is sent to a small city in the interior of Bahia to protect the food warehouses
from being sacked by famished men, women, and children. Shot in Milagres (Bahia), the same location used by Glauber Rocha
for his film "Black God, White Devil" ("Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol").
"The Rifles" is an amazing film whose settings in the parched Sertão are portrayed with extraordinary artfulness.
In this film, Ruy Guerra puts his astounding talent as a master of the choreographed camera movement at the service of characters
caught in a heart-breaking story with a strong political and social message: the film is about hunger and the desperate struggle
to survive in Brazil's dry interior amidst the perils of military repression. The film was ruthlessly cut by its initial distributors;
two versions of the film circulate to those who seek them out.
Ruy Guerra, born in Mozambique in 1931, studied filmmaking in Paris at IDHEC, the renowned French film school and moved
to Brazil in 1958 after working in the French film industry as an actor and writer. He remains active today in Brazil as a
prominent director; his most recent feature film being "Estorvo," an adaptation of a novel by the writer/composer
Chico Buarque.
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Director: Ruy Guerra
Screenplay and story: Ruy Guerra, Miguel Torres
Director of Photography: Ricardo Aronovich
Set design: Calazans Neto
Editors: Ruy Guerra, Raimundo Higino
Music: Moacir Santos
Production: Copacabana Filmes, Herbert Richers, Jarbas Barbosa.
Cast: Átila Iório (Gaúcho), Nelson Xavier, Maria Gladys, Leonidas Bayer, Hugo Carvana, Maurício Loyola, Ruy Polanah, Ivan
Candido, Paulo Cesar Pereio, Joel Barcellos.
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