Realistic and politically-tinted feature in which improvisation plays a major role, about the people in the Amazon region of Brazil, made in a time when most still thought the Amazon should be reclaimed, trees cut down and roads constructed. The story only reveals itself slowly.Iracema is a 15-year-old Indian girl who pretends to be 21. She doesn't feel like wearing out her life as other women do: by doing heavy and monotonous work. One day she leaves with a pretentious macho truck-driver, who continuously boasts about the greatness and progress of his own country while himself being active on the black market.The couple attend a procession and sleep together. Iracema finds out that she doesn't have much to expect from him and then considers becoming a prostitute.
- Directors
- Jorge Bodanzky, Wolf R. Gauer
- Country of production
- Brazil
- Year
- 1976
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 1994
- Length
- 86'
- Medium
- umatic PAL
- Language
- Portuguese
- Producer
- INA - institut nat. de l'audiovisuel
- Local Distributor
- Goethe Instituut NL