Matraga
A Hora e a Vez de Augusto Matraga
1965
Synopsis
The sertão, Brazil. Brutish rancher Augusto Matraga loses his wife and daughter to a rival and is savagely beaten in the violent clash that follows. Nursed back to health by farmers, a penitent Matraga embraces their pious way of life, until the moment comes to show how far redeemed he really is.
Editorial
For Brazilian Cinema Day, we’re spotlighting Roberto Santos’s star redemption story, which sows a crisis of faith into the dramatic landscape of a region rarely seen on film. The folk rhythms of guitarist-composer Geraldo Vandré’s fervent score enliven this key outlier of the Cinema Novo movement.
