Movie

King of the Cards

★ 6.2/10 · 5 votes 1975 1h 21m Released

Comedy

In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling "king of the deck", and Marta Anderson, the blond and provocative star of the show, recite in the historical scenario of the chanchadas, the abandoned studios of Cinédia. "The photography is splendid, it is a sort of parallel song, of critique, of parody, of understanding of a certain light typical of Brazilian cinema of the times, already re-created, already stylized. And with the older actors, Otelo, Lewgoy and the others, something very important happened in the artistic perception, seeing again, doing again, it was already a concrete metalanguage" (J. Bressane).

Cast

Grande Otelo Rei do Baralho Marta Anderson Loira Wilson Grey Gambler F Fininho Gambler C Cauê Filho Gambler E Elisa Segunda Loira