Doomed Lovers

Doomed Lovers

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 2, 1967

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Arrastão

Production Companies

Sumer Films

Director

Antoine d'Ormesson

Description

The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished its purity. The modern transposition of the legend is set in Brazil, in a village of poor fishermen on Guanabara Bay, framed by mountains not far from Rio de Janeiro. Two young cousins, Marcos and Jeronimo, get together to fish successfully - the arrastao is a large fishing net - and to resist the ugly local landowner, who sets the rules and the prices. This owner has a niece: Emaïsa, who loves Marcos and is loved by him.