Kilas, oh Mau da Fita
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kilas, oh Mau da Fita |
| Country of production | Portugal , Brazil |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | José Fonseca e Costa |
| script | José Fonseca e Costa Sérgio Godinho Tabajara Ruas |
| music | Sérgio Godinho |
| camera |
Mário Barroso António Escudeiro |
| cut | Manuel Tomás |
| occupation | |
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Kilas, o Mau da Fita (English: Kilas, the bad guy of the flick ) is a feature film by the Portuguese director José Fonseca e Costa from 1980. The comedy was created as a Portuguese-Brazilian co-production and was released on February 27, 1981 in the Portuguese Cinemas. With over 100,000 viewers, it is one of the most successful productions in the history of Portuguese film. The musician Sérgio Godinho , who also wrote the script, produced the soundtrack.
action
The film takes place in the milieu of Lisbon petty criminals, whose existential problems also go back to the unfulfilled promises of the Carnation Revolution . The main character is the gang leader “Kilas”, whose name is a satirical corruption of the English word “Killers”. Together with his partner, the unsuccessful singer “Pepsi Rita”, they maneuver their way through life with rip-offs.
The film starts out comically as a parody of American gangster films. The couple is then recruited by the secret service with money for actions against anti-fascists, the scope of which soon overwhelms the petty criminals themselves, and the film ends quite soberly. Action, humor and tragic comedy determine the emphatically urban film, which is also designed as a critical parable of Portuguese realities and post-revolutionary Portugal.
Festivals and Awards
- 1980: Festival Internacional de Cinema da Figueira da Foz
- 1980: Honorary Makila at the Biarritz Film Festival
- 1981: Berlin International Film Festival 1981
- 1981: Grand Prize of the Instituto Português de Cinema , today's Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
See also
literature
- A.Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of Portuguese cinema. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 .
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, ISBN 972-21-0446-2 .
Web links
- Kilas, o Mau da Fita in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The soundtrack - Kilas, o Mau da Fita on Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, p. 116.
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, p. 219.
- ↑ movies.nytimes.com