Cinema

Limite (1930)

The first truly home grown Brazilian film to be made in the country and the only one which Mário Peixoto succeeded in making. A unique and vanguard work, it drew applause in London and even praise from the Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisentstein. Beside Ganga Bruta, by Humberto Mauro, it represents the high peak of the Brazilian silent film. For decades on end, the only existing copy was kept in a safe in the National Faculty of Philosophy in Rio de Janeiro. More frequently exalted than seen, it became a mythological creation whose real virtues could only be really assessed during the 80s, after one of its guardians, Saulo Pereira de Mello, managed to restore it fully.

(Direction, script and editing: Mário Peixoto. Photography: Edgar Brasil. Music: Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Alexander Borodin, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, César Frank, Sergei Prokofiev. Cast: Olga Breno, Taciana Rei, Raul Schnoor, D.G. Pedrera, Carmen Santos, Mário Peixoto, Iolanda Bernades. Length: 120 minutes.