Queimada (1969)

Directors

Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast

Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori, Valeria Ferran Wanani, Norman Hill, Dana Ghia

The story

In 1844, the British Admiralty sends Sir William Walker, an agent provocateur, to the island of Queimada (literally "Burned" or "Burnt"), a Portuguese colony in the Lesser Antilles. The British government seeks to open the island to economic exploitation by the Antilles Royal Sugar Company. Walker's task is to organize an uprising of enslaved Africans against the Portuguese regime, which the British government intend to replace with a government dominated by pliable white planters.

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