Burn!

Burn!

  • Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Writer: Franco Solinas,Giorgio Arlorio,Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Countries of origin: Italy, France
  • Language: Italian, Portuguese, English
  • Release date: October 21, 1970
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Kvemada: Ostrvo u plamenu
  • "Queimada" is an action film directed by Gilo Pentecove and starring Marlon Brando and Nivardo Savatelli.
    The film tells the story of the 19th century British businessman William Walker to launch a slave rebellion on a sugar-producing island in the Caribbean controlled by Portugal.

    Details

    • Release date October 21, 1970
    • Filming locations Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
    • Production companies Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA), Les Productions Artistes Associés

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $431,817

    Movie reviews

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    • By Jolie 2022-10-11 19:38:37

      That's a small masterpiece, and you are the author

      - Civilization is not a simple matter, Jose. You cannot learn its secrets overnight. Today civilization belongs to the white man and you must learn to use it. Without it, you cannot go forward.


      - Jose Dolores says that if what we have in our country is civilization, civilization of white men, then we are better uncivilized because it is better to know where to go and not know how than it is to know how to go and not know where.
      - And then?
      - And then, Jose Dolores says...

    • By Kennith 2022-10-11 13:38:29

      Where is the island of Quemadada?

      After googled for a while, I couldn't determine the location of the island of Quemada, maybe it's a very unknown African island; I occasionally watched this film on the Phoenix Film Station, and Lao Ma played it very well. tangled. Aside from this, some of the film's points of oppression, exploitation and revolution are worth pondering, although the story takes place before and after the First Opium War, where colonialism prevailed....
      History repeats itself thanks to this profound and...

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    • By Melba 2023-09-30 19:10:32

      To colonize and to be colonized, those who are accustomed to giving may not know what others really...

    • By Kamille 2023-09-30 12:09:54

      After watching it, The Third Cinema's movies are really too long... The first half is unremarkable, and the reversal at the back is unexpected, no, but it is reasonable. Capitalism burns mountains and kills people with peace of mind. Even if the protagonist has a relationship with Jose, he is not really a friend. The drama of betrayal and then trying to save after taking advantage of it is too real. In fact, the protagonist stated from the beginning that he wanted the rebels to become...

    • By Ellen 2023-09-23 08:30:04

      Freedom given is not freedom. Brando doesn't feel like the one I've seen...

    • By Jeromy 2023-09-03 15:08:17

      #cinefan1&2 This is training and being trained to love and kill each...

    • By Alberto 2023-07-16 19:09:13

      Simple and powerful story, but not well-known, it can be regarded as a pearl of film history. As the spokesman for the colonists, Brando directed a coup d’etat and suppressed another coup d’état. After his arrest, Dolores, a revolutionary he raised, said to the black soldiers escorting him: “If they let me live. That means it's good for them, and if it's good for them to be alive, then it's better for me to die." A stark critique of colonialism. The paragraph "Abolicao" written by Morricone for...

    Movie plot

    Brando plays William Walker, a 19th-century British businessman, who is competitive and conceited. The British government sent him to a Portuguese-controlled sugar island in the Caribbean to launch a slave rebellion, giving Britain an advantage in the sugar trade. Walker was so successful that he trained Jose Dulos, a local man, to be the leader of the slaves, thinking that he could rest easy. Unexpectedly, when he returned to the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Sir William Walker: I think it's a rather simple calculation. What does a guerrilla have to lose, except his life? Whereas you, General, have a lot to lose. Wife, children, house, career, savings, personal pleasures and private aspirations and it's nothing to be ashamed of that's simply the way of it.

    • Teddy Sanchez: The government promises you that the war will end soon. Peace will come. And order will again be established. And you will be able to go back to your houses and to your work. Have faith a little longer. We will do everything possible to alleviate your suffering. I beg you, my fellow citizens, listen to me. Believe me. Trust us!

    • Teddy Sanchez: Who knows? If there hadn't been a Royal Sugar, would there have been a José Dolores? Who knows, General?