The Fall

The Fall (1976)

Drama

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.

Directors: Ruy Guerra, Nelson Xavier.

Casts

	Nelson Xavier as Mário
	Lima Duarte as Salatiel
	Isabel Ribeiro as Laura
	Maria Silvia as Lindalva
	Hugo Carvana as José
	Leina Krespi as
	Fernando Peixoto as
	Helber Rangel as Alfredo
	Luis Pellegrini as
	Álvaro Freire as
	Luiz Rosemberg Filho as Assessor
	Roberto Frota as Assessor
	Tonico Pereira as Tonho
	Saul Lachtermacher as
	Ivan de Souza as
	Jurandyr Ferreira as
	Perfeito Fortuna as
	Paulo César Peréio as Pedro
	Cosme dos Santos as Operário
	Leonidas Bayer as
	Carlos Eduardo Novaes as

Crew