Toda a Vida em 15 Minutos (1954) [N/A]
Featuring:
Rodolfo Arena, Sérgio Augusto, Sérgio Augusto
Written by:
Hélio Duarte
Walter George Durst
Marcos Mergulies
Directed by:
Pereira Dias
Release Date:
November 3, 1954
Original Title:
Toda a Vida em 15 Minutos
Alternate Titles:
Toda a Vida em Quinze Minutos
Genres:
Drama
Production Countries:
Brazil
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Passengers aboard a seemingly doomed plane reminisce about their lives, questioning the façade of their daily social activities. Once safe at Santos Dumont Airport, they go back to their old hypocritical selves.
I don't think this film will ever receive five votes. For all I know, it was released only in Brazil. I saw it a few years after it opened, in a rerun, and I was only 10 at that time. Even so it made quite an impression on me. Probably because it reminded me of "Phone Call From a Stranger", a fine Fox drama with Bette Davis, Michael Rennie and Keenan Wynn, where the action also took place in a plane. Of course, "Phone Call" was much superior to this modest Brazilian production. But the acting was quite good, especially the performance of Jardel Filho, at the beginning of his career. In the late sixties this actor would star in two of the best Brazilian films of all times, "Terra em Transe" (directed by Glauber Rocha) and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade´s "Macunaima".
