Don Salvatore Savastano, a boss involved in the smuggling of contraband cigarettes, is forced to watch four masked robbers kill his wife and his only son in a restaurant where he and his family are celebrating the young boy's first Holy Communion. From that moment on Don Salvatore has no other purpose in life but to ge…

here is an amusing story about this movie; after its screening at a Japan film festival, the audience was astonished once the film's lead actor came onto the stage. Everyone thought that this film featured a real dying person.As you might guess, JACQUES ET NOVEMBRE is a pseudo-documentary, and a fascinating one- more f…

卡瓦尔康蒂在巴西拍摄的最后一部影片，也是其后期电影生涯的代表作之一，这位在巴西出生的导演一生却漂泊于法国，德国等欧洲国家拍片，很少回到本国，而在仅有的几部在巴西拍摄的影片之中，本片是其中最出色的。1954年捷克卡维罗发利国际电影节最佳导演奖。In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of mi…

still think of this, one of his first movies, as his best. Here Cantinflas' explodes with comic genius. He fully develops the under-educated but always noble, kind-hearted delinquent he is that speaks his mind, only to the confusion of even the most highly educated. The courtroom ending scene also establishes the formu…