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A Última Praga de Mojica

2021 · 17 min

A quiet, affectionate look at rescuing a lost film, more interesting for its subject than its brief runtime.

Overview
The short film reports the process of rescuing and finishing A Praga, by José Mojica Marins, o Zé do Caixão. Produced in 1980, the film was never completed and was lost.

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    Themes
    • art
    • memory
    • obsession
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    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • true story
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    • Gore none
    • Language none
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    Horror2
    Humour1
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension2
    Darkness3
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight4

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Matheus Sundfeld, Eugênio Puppo, Pedro Junqueira, Cédric Fanti
    Written by
    Eugênio Puppo, Cédric Fanti, Pedro Junqueira, Matheus Sundfeld
    Starring
    José Mojica Marins, Rubens Francisco Lucchetti, Eugênio Puppo, Andre Sigwalt
    Runtime
    17 min
    Country
    Brazil
    Languages
    Portuguese

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