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BURN!
Italy, 1969
Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori
Music by Ennio Morricone
Approx. 119 min. 35mm.
On a Caribbean island in the 1840s, Marlon Brando’s ambiguously-motivated British agent provocateur helps the black slaves in a revolt against their Portuguese overlords. But he returns ten years later — to suppress it.
Reviews
“...proof of Pontecorvo's gift for ecstatic epic filmmaking.”
– Elliot Stein, The Village Voice