O Rei do Baralho

O Rei do Baralho

81 mins | Comedy | Nov. 3, 1975

In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling "king of the deck", and Marta Anderson, the blond and provocative star of the show, recite in the historical scenario of the chanchadas, the abandoned studios of Cinédia. "The photography is splendid, it is a sort of parallel song, of critique, of parody, of understanding of a certain light typical of Brazilian cinema of the times, already re-created, already stylized. And with the older actors, Otelo, Lewgoy and the others, something very important happened in the artistic perception, seeing again, doing again, it was already a concrete metalanguage" (J. Bressane).

O Rei do Baralho

81 mins | Comedy | Nov. 3, 1975

O Rei do Baralho
In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling "king of the deck", and Marta Anderson, the blond and provocative star of the show, recite in the historical scenario of the chanchadas, the abandoned studios of Cinédia. "The photography is splendid, it is a sort of parallel song, of critique, of parody, of understanding of a certain light typical of Brazilian cinema of the times, already re-created, already stylized. And with the older actors, Otelo, Lewgoy and the others, something very important happened in the artistic perception, seeing again, doing again, it was already a concrete metalanguage" (J. Bressane).
Producers Julio Bressane Produções Cinematográficas
Original title O Rei do Baralho
Directors Rosa Dias, Júlio Bressane
Writers

Cast

Grande Otelo

as Rei do Baralho

Marta Anderson

as Loira

Wilson Grey

as Gambler

Fininho

as Gambler

Cahuê Filho

as Gambler

Elisa

as Segunda Loira