The Wrung-Out Man

Year: 1980

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: Portuguese

Director: João Batista de Andrade

Drama

Deraldo, a celebrated poet from Brazil’s Northeast, moves to the bustling capital of São Paulo and survives solely on his verses and the pamphlets he sells on the street. His modest life is upended when, honored as a symbolic worker at a party, he is mistaken for the multinational accused of murdering his boss, thrusting him into a legal nightmare.

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