A fugitive professor walks into a hotel and everyone's marriage explodes. Classic Tuesday.
Wanted by the police, a university professor flees to a hotel in the interior and causes changes in the lives of the owner of the establishment and his wife.
Acting
Jardel Filho simmers with repressed rage you can practically taste.
Direction
Barros lets scenes breathe until the air itself feels oppressive.
Director
Carlos Alberto de Souza Barros
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Brazil's military dictatorship, the film's claustrophobic hotel mirrors the nation's own suffocating political atmosphere—subtle enough to pass censors, brutal enough to land anyway.
Carlos Alberto de Souza Barros directed exactly TWO features and vanished from cinema; this was his second, and some say his disappearance was as deliberate as his characters'.
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