O abismo

Film Information:
Year:

1977

The Abyss

País:

 

Director:

Rogério Sganzerla

Color:

Color

Format:

35 mm

Duration:

80 min

Cast:

  • INTÉRPRETES: Norma Bengell, José Mojica Marins, Wilson Grey, Jorge Loredo, Edson Machado

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Rogério Sganzerla
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Renato Laclete
  • MONTAJE: Rogério Sganzerla
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Rogério Sganzerla, Norma Bengell

Contact:

  • Contacto / Contact
  • Mercúrio Produçoes Ltda.
  • Helena Ignez
  • Rua Nestor Pestana, 87 -
  • Conjunto 101 - Consolação
  • 01303-010 Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • T +55 11 3256 8676
  • +55 11 3129 5745
  • F +55 11 3256 8676
  • E smercurioproducoes@gmail.com

Synopsis

Taking six years in the make and another seven years to have it decently released in the theaters, O abismo, features Cinema Novo’s sex symbol Norma Bengell, comedy TV artist Jorge Loredo, horror actor/director Jose Mojica Marins and veteran movie actor Wilson Grey. The film deals with ancient manuscripts and flying saucers, but everything here is very political: stuck in a lousy present ruled by ignorance, the only hope lies in a remote past or in a distant future. Or in the songs of Jimi Hendrix –“Up From the Skies”, “Pali Grap”, “Wait Until Tomorrow”, “In From the Store”– that Sganzerla cuts, edits and pastes, anticipating DJ culture. Hendrix is the first Sganzerla alter ego myth of genius, misunderstanding and decline, which will later also include Noel Rosa, Oswald de Andrade and mainly Orson Welles.

Dates and Times