Entranced Earth

Entranced Earth

The political game without marked cards

1967 · 108 min · ★ 7.2 · Drama

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.

Directed by Glauber Rocha · Written by Glauber Rocha

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