Passionate, political and intoxicatingly beautiful, director Gillo Pontecorvo’s Burn! is at last available in the complete, unseen Italian-language version. The follow up to his legendary The Battle of Algiers, Burn! stars Marlon Brando as British agent provocateur William Walker who foments a slave uprising on a Caribbean island of Quemada in the 1840s, then installs his own leader, an illiterate sugar cane cutter (Evaristo Márquez). But when the puppet leader learns that the new masters are no better than the old, Brando must return to the island to suppress a new revolution. Pontecorvo’s film was plagued by interference from the start (the island’s oppressors were changed from Spanish to Portuguese after the Spanish government pressured the studio), the film was re-edited, drastically cut and essentially dumped in America.
In Italian with English subtitles. (1969) 132m
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In Italian with English subtitles. (1969) 132m
Passionate, political and intoxicatingly beautiful, director Gillo Pontecorvo’s Burn! is at last available in the complete, unseen Italian-language version. The follow up to his legendary The Battle of Algiers, Burn! stars Marlon Brando as British agent provocateur William Walker who foments a slave uprising on a Caribbean island of Quemada in the 1840s, then installs his own leader, an illiterate sugar cane cutter (Evaristo Márquez). But when the puppet leader learns that the new masters are no better than the old, Brando must return to the island to suppress a new revolution. Pontecorvo’s film was plagued by interference from the start (the island’s oppressors were changed from Spanish to Portuguese after the Spanish government pressured the studio), the film was re-edited, drastically cut and essentially dumped in America.
In Italian with English subtitles. (1969) 132m
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In Italian with English subtitles. (1969) 132m
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