The Third Bank of the River

The Third Bank of the River (1994)

FantasyDrama

After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos' celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, including his son who continues to communicate with his father, speaking daily to him from the river bank. While offering an evocative vision of rural Brazil as a timeless land of mystery and solemnity, The Third Bank of the River is also bitingly satiric in the remarkable depiction of religious belief when the family moves to the city and its youngest member, a mesmerizing little girl, is revealed to be a kind of saint, capable of miraculous acts. -Harvard Film Archive

Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Writer: Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Casts

	Ilya São Paulo as
	Maria Ribeiro as
	Vanja Orico as
	Jofre Soares as
	Renato Matos as
	Affonso Brazza as
	Gilson Moura as
	Andrade Jr. as
	Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva as
	Sonjia Saurin as
	Barbara Brant as
	Mariane Vicentini as
	Chico Diaz as
	Waldir Onofre as
	Laura Lustosa as
	Henrique Rovira as
	Mario Lute as

Crew