Tűz! - Queimada lázadói / Burn! / MARLON BRANDO / DVD Video 

UPC 5999546333831  

Audio:  English, Hungarian  

Subtitle: Hungarian    

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Burn! (original title: Queimada) is a 1969 historical war drama film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Set in the mid-19th century, the film stars Marlon Brando as a British agent provocateur sent to overthrow a Portuguese colony in the Caribbean by manipulating a slave revolt to serve the interests of the sugar trade, and the complications that arise from the formation of a subsequent puppet state.

The fictional plot is partly based on the activities of American filibuster William Walker, after whom the main character is named, and his 1855 invasion of Nicaragua. Screenwriters Franco Solinas and Giorgio Arlorio also drew on the experiences of intelligence agent Edward Lansdale, who served the United States government in the Philippines and Indochina in the 1950s through the 60s, and the Cuban Revolution.

The film is an Italian and French co-production by Alberto Grimaldi, distributed internationally by United Artists. It features a musical score composed by Ennio

Cast

Queimada egy kis karib-tengeri sziget az 1800-as években. A természet földi paradicsomnak teremtette, de az ember pokollá tette. A portugál gyarmatosítók óriási bevételt hozó cukornádültetvényeiken kegyetlenül dolgoztatják Afrikából behurcolt rabszolgáikat. A rossz bánásmód szükségszerűen lázadáshoz vezet… A felkelés hírére az angolok is beavatkoznak: Sir William Walker, a brit kormány cinikus és gátlástalan ügynöke (Marlon Brando) azzal a céllal utazik a szigetre, hogy tovább szítsa a felkelést és az angolok kezére játssza a cukorkereskedelmet. A lázadók vezetője, José Dolores naivan megbízik Walkerben. 10 évvel később Walkert újra Queimadára küldik. Ezúttal az a feladata, hogy leszámoljon a hajdani lázadókkal, akik azóta túlságosan nagy hatalomra tettek szert. Dolores azonban már megtanult egyet s mást…

Egyéb címek: Tűz! - Queimada lázadói, Burn!
Nemzet: olasz, francia
Stílus: kaland, dráma
Hossz: 112 perc

Plot

In 1844, the British Admiralty sends Sir William Walker, an agent provocateur, to the island of Queimada (literally "Burned" or "Burnt"), a Portuguese colony in the Lesser Antilles. The British government seeks to open the island to economic exploitation by the Antilles Royal Sugar Company. Walker's task is to organize an uprising of enslaved Africans against the Portuguese regime, which the British government intend to replace with a government dominated by pliable white planters.

When he arrives in Queimada, Walker befriends the charismatic José Dolores, whom he entices to lead the slave rebellion, and induces leading landowners to reject Portuguese rule. Dolores's rebellion is successful, and Walker arranges the assassination of the Portuguese governor in a nighttime coup. Walker establishes a puppet regime beholden to the Antilles Company, headed by the idealistic but ineffectual revolutionary Teddy Sanchez. Walker convinces Dolores to recognize the new regime and to surrender his arms, in exchange for the abolition of slavery. Having succeeded in his mission, he moves on to his next assignment in Indochina.

In 1848, Dolores–disgusted by the new regime's collaboration with the Antilles Company–leads a second uprising, aiming to expel British influence from Quiemada. After six years of the uprising, in 1854, the Company returns Walker (after finding him in Plymouth, England) to Queimada with the consent of the Admiralty, tasking him with suppressing the revolt and pacifying the island. Resentful of the company's exploitation of Queimada, President Sanchez is uncooperative. Sanchez is ousted and executed in a coup engineered by Walker, who establishes a regime wholly beholden to the company. British forces are invited to the island; guided by Walker, they rapidly quell the rebellion and capture Dolores. Walker attempts to save Dolores's life due to their past comradery, but the rebel leader rejects his assistance, asserting that freedom is earned, not received.

The government executes Dolores by hanging. Soon after, Walker, guilt-stricken, is accosted as he prepares to depart Queimada. A man greets him just as Dolores did when Walker first arrived on the island, and then stabs him to death. Before dying, Walker looks around and sees himself surrounded by accusatory or passive looks of the poor people in the port.