本片改编自巴西名著。一个民工家庭为富有的庄园主看管牲口,境况逐渐改善,但父亲被骗跟当地警察玩牌,引起争吵,遭到警察毒打。影片结束时,严重的乾旱迫使全家又上路寻找新的生活出路。本片充满了对弱者的人文关怀和对社会不公的抗议,标志着巴西“新电影运动”的启动。
伊佐拉(露塞莉亚·桑多斯 Lucélia Santos 饰)虽然身为女奴,却有着一个善良的女主人马尔薇娜(诺尔玛·布鲁姆 Norma Blum 饰),一直以来,她的待遇和大小姐别无二致。然而,伊佐拉的好日子在马尔薇娜的儿子莱昂(鲁本斯·法尔科 Rubens de Falco 饰)回家之后就结束了,莱昂看上了美丽贤惠的伊佐拉,对她百般骚扰,令伊佐拉苦不堪言。为了解救伊佐拉,马尔薇娜决定还伊佐拉一个自由之身。
某日,伊佐拉遇见了名为多比亚斯的英俊少爷,两人坠入了情网。莱昂得知他们的恋情嫉妒的快要发疯,千方百计想要拆散两人。在莱昂的设计之下,多比亚斯惨遭拘禁,伊佐拉的解放证书也被付之一炬。
"O Assalto ao Trem Pagador" is a classic of the Brazilian Cinema. Based on a true event, indeed one of the boldest heist in the Brazilian history, the film is very impressive even in the present days. The accuracy and realism of the scenes recall the Italian Movement Neo-Realism. The lack of human rights with the humble people of the slums that still prevails in the present day...
In 1963, in the village of Milagres in a very poor area of Brazil, a group of soldiers arrive to protect the store of a politician from a group of starving people. They have rifles for guarding the food and avoid the sacking by the population. One of the soldiers, completely drunken, kills a local in a dispute with his colleagues for killing a goat. The truck driver Gaúcho (Áti...