Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:46:09 +1200
From: Dave Kent <dave-AT-idiom.co.nz>
Subject: RE: revolution in film



Burn!  (1970)
United Artists, Color, 112 min.
This historical drama from politically-minded Italian director Gillo 
Pontecorvo stars Marlon Brando as an arrogant 19th-century English 
aristocrat sent to the Caribbean island of Quemada to quell a slave 
uprising. He overthrows the island's leader and installs a puppet 
regime that will take orders from England. He later regrets those 
actions, and returns to the island, drunk and disillusioned, to 
subvert the government he helped establish. A lushly photographed 
condemnation of European colonialism from the director of The Battle 
of Algiers (1965).

Director	Gillo Pontecorvo
Producer	Alberto Grimaldi
Director of Photography	Marcello Gatti
Editor	Mario Morra
Composer	Ennio Morricone
Screenwriter	Franco Solinas


Giampiero Albertini, Marlon Brando, Cecily Browne, Norman Hill, Tom 
Lyons, Evaristo Marquez, Carlo Palmucci, Joseph Persaud, Renato 
Salvatori, Valeria Wanani


DID YOU KNOW?
Burn! (1969) is based on the true story of the 1520 Spanish 
intervention in Quemada, when a slave revolt threatened the island's 
sugar production. When Spain objected to the film, director Gillo 
Pontecorvo switched the country to Portugal and left the story intact.
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