Triste Trópico

Triste Trópico (1974)

January 1st, 19741h 17min

Documentary
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Overview

In this "fake documentary", a doctor returns to Brazil after his studies in Paris. Setting out to practice Medicine, he becomes an indigenous messiah and, in time, a cannibal.


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