| Vidas Secas | |
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| Directed by | Nelson Pereira dos Santos |
| Written by | Nelson Pereira dos Santos |
| Starring | Átila Iório Orlando Macedo |
| Music by | Leonardo Alencar |
| Release date(s) | Brazil: 1963 United States: June 5, 1969 |
| Running time | 103 min. |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
Vidas Secas is a 1963 Brazilian drama film directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, and based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Graciliano Ramos. The title means "barren lives", but the film is normally released under its original Portuguese title. It tells the story of a poverty-stricken family in the dry Brazilian northeast.
The film stars Átila Iório, Orlando Macedo, Maria Ribeiro and Jofre Soares. It is one of the key films in the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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