Queimada
Original title: Burn! · Turkish title: İsyan
“The man who sells war.”
1969 · 1 h 52 min
Directed by 
Gillo Pontecorvo
Gillo PontecorvoCast
Marlon Brando Evaristo Márquez 
Renato Salvatori
Credits
Written by: 
Franco Solinas
Plot
A British agent provokes a slave revolt on a Portuguese Caribbean island to open it to British commerce, and returns years later to crush its leader.
Sinekatalog’s take
Gillo Pontecorvo's political drama has Marlon Brando as a British agent stirring then crushing a Caribbean slave revolt. Powerful and angry, with Ennio Morricone's thrilling score, it is a sharp lesson in colonial manipulation.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (6,536 votes)
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