(The Day Dorival faced the guard)
(35 mm, 14 min, color, 1986)
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In a military prison, on a sweltering night,
the black prisoner Dorival has one wish only: to take a shower. In order
to do that, he will have to face a frightened young soldier, a corporal
obsessed with being a hero, a sergeant who misses his girlfriend, a despotic
lieutenant - and turn a quiet night at the barracks into hell.
PHOTO
by Christian Lesage:
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Director: Jorge Furtado and José Pedro Goulart
Written by:
Giba Assis Brasil, José Pedro Goulart, Jorge Furtado and Ana Luiza
Azevedo
Cinematographer:
Christian
Lesage
Art Director:
Fiapo
Barth
Music by:
Augusto
Licks
Production
Coordinator: Gisele Hiltl and Henrique de Freitas Lima
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant
Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
João
Acaiabe (Dorival)
Pedro Santos
(Private)
Zé Adão
Barbosa (Corporal)
Sirmar Antunes
(Sargent)
Lui Strassburger
(Liutenant)
Prizes
14th
Gramado Film Festival, 1986:
Best Short
Film (Official Jury, Popular Jury and Critic's Prize), Best Actor (João
Acaiabe) and 5 regional prizes.
21st
Iberoamerican Film Festival, Huelva, Spain, 1986:
Best Fiction
Short Film.
8th
Latinoamerican Film Festival, Havana, Cuba, 1986:
Best Fiction
Short Film.
Reviews
"Transgression is the word that applies to THE DAY DORIVAL FACED THE GUARD...,
inspired in a story written by Tabajara Ruas: the black man Dorival (outstanding
acting by João Acaiabe), in prison, decides to face his jailers
and conquer the privilege of taking a shower at any price. Humor and violence
in the right doses, and the result are 14 intense minutes of sure direction
and brilliance."
(Caio Fernando
Abreu, O ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO, 08/08/86)
"In THE DAY DORIVAL FACED THE GUARD, although the cinematography does not
go into the sphere of the phantastic, one feels (...) the well defined
tempo and, mainly, a certain refinement in the mise en cadre that produces
powerful images. (...) It also possesses a realistic fictional universe,
in spite of the intelligent play with the textual quotes, including King
Kong, the western and 'Casablanca'."
(Fernão
Ramos, FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO, 15/08/86)
Available versions
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| 35mm in portuguese |
35mm with english subtitles |
35mm with spanish subtitles |
16mm in portuguese |
DVD with multilingual subtitles ("Curtas da Casa") |
VHS in portuguese ("Historias do Pais") |
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