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In an age of repression and moralism, nothing sold better than the profane.
Among bodies, jokes, eye-catching posters, and packed movie theaters, pornochanchada became one of the most popular- and contradictory- phenomena in Brazilian cinema. This documentary delves into a cinema of excess and irreverence to investigate how, during the military dictatorship, films apparently considered “minor” became box-office successes and exposed the fractures of a conservative, unequal, and closely watched country.Read moreLess
Among bodies, jokes, eye-catching posters, and packed movie theaters, pornochanchada became one of the most popular- and contradictory- phenomena in Brazilian cinema. This documentary delves into a cinema of excess and irreverence to investigate how, during the military dictatorship, films apparently considered “minor” became box-office successes and exposed the fractures of a conservative, unequal, and closely watched country.
The story
Among bodies, jokes, eye-catching posters, and packed movie theaters, pornochanchada became one of the most popular- and contradictory- phenomena in Brazilian cinema. This documentary delves into a cinema of excess and irreverence to investigate how, during the military dictatorship, films apparently considered “minor” became box-office successes and exposed the fractures of a conservative, unequal, and closely watched country.
Cast & crew
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- Director
- Iago Branquinho
- Writer
- Iago Branquinho
- Editor
- Iago Branquinho
- Writer
- Larissa Freitas
- Writer
- Thamiris Bispo
- Producer
- Thamiris Bispo
- Director of Photography
- Nina Gismondi
- Producer
- Alana Silva
- Editor
- Karen Silsan
- Producer
- Karen Silsan
- Editor
- Valentim Schumann
- Producer
- Valentim Schumann