The Three Marias ( As Três Marias ) ( Il Cuore criminale delle donne )

The Three Marias (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: As Três Marias
Alternate Title: Il Cuore criminale delle donne
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Brazil ( Latin America, Mexico )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Aluisio Abranches

Written By:
Aluisio Abranches
Heitor Dhalia
Wilson Freire

Actors:
Marieta Severo ..... Filomena Capadócio
Júlia Lemmertz ..... Maria Francisca
Maria Luisa Mendonça ..... Maria Rosa
Luíza Mariani ..... Maria Pia
Carlos Vereza ..... Firmino Santos Guerra
Enrique Díaz ..... Zé das Cobras
Tuca Andrada ..... Chief Tenório
Wagner Moura ..... Jesuíno Cruz
Lázaro Ramos ..... Catrevagem
Cassiano Carneiro ..... José Tranquilo Santos Guerra
Fábio Limma ..... Arcanjo Santos Guerra
André Barros ..... João Capadócio
Taveira Júnior ..... Sertanejo

Synopsis:

Filomena Capadscio is the matriarch of a family who is abruptly visited by tragedy. Filomena's husband and two sons are brutally murdered by the sons of Firmino Santos Guerra. Thirty years earlier, Filomena had been engaged to Santos Guerra but left him before their wedding to marry his rival Borges Capadscio. The result of this union filled Santos Guerra with rage and a promise to someday exact revenge on the newly married couple. Filomena buries her husband and sons and begins to set plans to have revenge against the Santos Guerra family. She brings together her three daughters (Maria Francisca, Maria Rosa and Maria Pia) and sends them off into the backlands of Brazil to locate and hire three ruthless killers.

In this clanking melodrama from Brazil, a woman whose husband and two sons are murdered by an old lover after she spurns his advances one last time dispatches her three daughters to wreak eye-for-eye vengeance. Each is assigned to hire a different paid assassin (the three candidates are all bizarre, superstitious freaks) to kill a different victim, but their plans go awry. The emotional climate in this pretentious South American western is too extreme to invite identification or even arouse much interest.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 09 August, 2006.

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