Caiçara (film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Caiçara

| image = Caiçara film.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Adolfo Celi
Tom Payne
John Waterhouse

| writer = Alberto Cavalcanti
Adolfo Celi
Ruggero Jacobbi

| producer = Alberto Cavalcanti

| starring = Eliane Lage
Abílio Pereira de Almeida
Carlos Vergueiro
Mário Sérgio

| cinematography = H. E. Fowle

| editing = Oswald Hafenrichter

| music = Francisco Mignone

| studio = Vera Cruz

| distributor = Universal Filmes
Marte Filmes

| released = {{film date|1950|11|1|df=yes}}

| runtime = 92 minutes

| country = Brazil

| language = Portuguese

}}

Caiçara is a 1950 Brazilian drama film co-directed by Adolfo Celi, Tom Payne, and John Waterhouse. It was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |title=Festival de Cannes: Caiçara |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4058/year/1951.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305204633/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/AC8FBAF2-52BC-4309-A460-4A6EE040D320/year/1951.html |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |access-date=11 January 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com}}

Plot

Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Marina (Eliane Lage) finds herself the object of desire for her husband's business partner, Manuel (Carlos Vergueiro). While the two men fight to the death over her, Marina finds love with a passing sailor, Alberto (Mário Sérgio).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7xoXDdXBscC&q=Cai%C3%A7ara+1950&pg=PA5|title=Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment|first=Darlene J.|last=Sadlier|date=1 October 2010|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=9780252092329|via=Google Books}}

Cast

Production

It was shot between March and September 1950 in Ilhabela, São Paulo.{{cite web | url=http://cinemateca.gov.br/cgi-bin/wxis.exe/iah/?IsisScript=iah/iah.xis&base=FILMOGRAFIA&lang=p&nextAction=lnk&exprSearch=ID=010958&format=detailed.pft#1 | title=Caiçara | publisher=Cinemateca Brasileira | access-date=16 June 2014 | language=Portuguese | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112134/http://cinemateca.gov.br/cgi-bin/wxis.exe/iah/?IsisScript=iah%2Fiah.xis&base=FILMOGRAFIA&lang=p&nextAction=lnk&exprSearch=ID%3D010958&format=detailed.pft#1 | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}

References

External links

{{IMDb title|id=0184322|title=Caiçara}}

Category:1950 films

Category:1950 drama films

Category:Brazilian black-and-white films

Category:Brazilian drama films

Category:Films directed by Adolfo Celi

Category:Films directed by Tom Payne

Category:Films shot in São Paulo (state)

Category:1950s Portuguese-language films

Category:1950s Brazilian films

Category:Portuguese-language drama films