Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Country: Brazil
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Movement: Cinema Novo
The Priest and the Girl is a 1966 Brazilian drama film directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, with a screenplay based on the homonymous poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Filming took place in Minas Gerais, in São Gonçalo do Rio das Pedras, Gruta de Maquiné and Serra do Espinhaço. The film was initially restored in 1999 and then between 2005 and 2007. In November 2015, the film was included in the list compiled by the Brazilian Association of Film Critics (Abraccine) of the 100 best Brazilian films of all time. In a decaying diamond mine on the banks of the Rio das Pedras, in a mountainous region near Diamantina, a young priest arrives to administer last rites to the elderly vicar named Antonio from an isolated village. Before dying, the dying man whispers something to the priest, and the merchant Fortunato hears the name of Mariana, his concubine. Mariana was the daughter of a ruined miner who, at the age of ten, was given by her father to Fortunato to raise. The merchant took Mariana as his lover when she became a young woman and wanted to marry her, but Father Antonio refused. After the vicar's funeral, the new priest agrees to perform the marriage but is reluctant upon learning that Mariana desires him and that he also desires her.
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