The Sandpit Generals (1972)
August 8, 1972Release Date
The Sandpit Generals (1972)
August 8, 1972Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Kent Lane
Bullet
Juarez Santalvo
Actor
Tisha Sterling
Dora
Freddie Gedeon
Almiro
Mark de Vries
Dry Turn
Butch Patrick
No Legs
Ademir Da Silva
Big John
Guilherme Lamounier
The Cat
John Rubinstein
Professor
Hall Bartlett
Director
Jorge Amado
Writer
Ricardo Aronovich
Cinematographer
Marshall M. Borden
Editor
Eliana Pittman
Dalvah
Dorival Caymmi
John Adam
Alejandro Rey
Fr. Jose Pedro
Aloysio de Oliveira
Chancellor
Marisa Urban
Rich Woman
William Hobson
Rich Man
Creusa Millet
Voodoo Priestess
Macio
Ezequiel
Jimmy Fraser
Dora's Brother
Peter Nielsen
Lollipop
Gilberto Marques
Makeup Supervisor
Roberto Bakker
Production Manager
Gaylin P. Schultz
Production Coordinator
Richard Lapham
Music Editor
Gilbert E. Plenty
Sound
Thereza Pinto de Azevedo
Wardrobe Supervisor
Louis Oliveira
Music Supervisor / Conductor / Music Arranger
Lorrene Baker
Robert Bakker
Chris Rodriquez
Marian Fraser
Details.
Wiki.
The Sandpit Generals (also released as The Defiant and The Wild Pack) is a 1971 drama film directed by Hall Bartlett. Its plot is based on the novel Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado. Melodious soundtracks were written by Dorival Caymmi.
The film was not popular in the United States due to its socialist context and was banned by Brazil's military regime for the same reason, but became an iconic film in the Soviet Union, where it took part in the 7th Moscow International Film Festival and, although did not win any prize, in a few years was widely distributed in movie theaters and was proclaimed "the best foreign film" by Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in 1974.
In the socialist country, the movie became so well-known that it inspired theater plays, books, special reports on post-Soviet criminal youth etc.