(Scarlet sock, hardened with blood)
(Digital Beta, 23 min, color, 2000)
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Episode of the series "Brave People" of Globo
TV.
In a small town in Rio Grande do Sul, in 1953, the great footballer Bonifácio is in a dilemma. He plays in an amateur football team formed by poor black players, he is invited to join the team of the rich whites. It would be his chance to offer his girlfriend, Elisa, a maid, a better life. But his best friend Vicente cannot understand what he considers a betrayal. PHOTO by Alex Sernambi:
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Director: Jorge Furtado
Executive Producers: Nora Goulart and Luciana Tomasi
Written by: Jorge Furtado and Guel Arraes
from the short sotry by Lourenço Cazarré
Cinematographer:
Alex Sernambi
Art Director:
Fiapo Barth
Music by:
Leo Henkin
Editor: Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
A TV Globo Production
of a Casa de Cinema PoA Realization
Main Cast:
Sérgio Menezes (Bonifácio)
Camila Pitanga (Elisa)
Francisco Cuoco (Almeida)
Othon Bastos (Belenho)
Suzana Vieira (Elvira)
Audri D'Anunciação (Vicente)
Reviews
"Immediate
relief from the language of television came with the excellent SCARLET
SOCK, HARDENED WITH BLOOD. Directed by Jorge Furtado, the episode had all
the characteristic elements of television: a popular theme, colourul locations,
correct accents and characterizations, well shot and the infallible Francisco
Cuoco and Suzana Vieira. And beautiful Camila Pitanga and promising Sérgio
Menezes, the protagonist, should also be mentioned. Faithful to television
drama, 'Meia encarnada dura de sangue' managed to allude to scenes from
Carlos Saura's Goya, while maintaining the tone of a good soap opera episode."
(Patrícia d'Abreu, JB ONLINE, Rio de Janeiro,
28/12/2000)
http://brasil.sapo.pt/Y4/119915.html
"SCARLET
SOCK, HARDENED WITH BLOOD was concise and precise. It tells the story of
the first black football player of a town in Rio Grande do Sul to play
in the whites' team. With sensitive acting by Sérgio Menezes (who
was brilliant as Jesus in the soap opera 'Força de um Desejo') and
Camila Pitanga, plus Othon Bastos, Suzana Vieira and even Francisco Cuoco,
the episode had a crisp and powerful text about prejudice, the desire for
personal growth and tenderness."
(Clara Arreguy, ESTADO DE MINAS, Belo Horizonte, 28/12/2000)
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