Quilombo (film)

Quilombo
Quilombo
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Carlos Diegues
Written by	Carlos Diegues; João Felicio dos Santos; Décio Freitas
Produced by	Augusto Arraes
Starring	Antônio Pompêo ; Zezé Motta ; Tony Tornado ; Vera Fischer
Cinematography	Lauro Escorel
Edited by	Mair Tavares
Music by	Gilberto Gil
Production; companies	CDK Produções; Embrafilme; Gaumont
Distributed by	Embrafilme
Release date	June 7, 1984;
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Brazil
Language	Portuguese

Quilombo is a 1984 Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Diegues. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] The film is based on the history of the Quilombo dos Palmares, a community of escaped slaves that numbered in the thousands during the 17th century in north-eastern Brazil.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "Quilombo" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Quilombo". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-06-23.

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