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| Awakening of the Beast(BRA/1970) | | Directed José Mojica Marins Script José Mojica Marins Produced José Mojica Marins, Giorgio Attili e George Michel Serkeis Cast José Mojica Marins, Sérgio Hingst, Ozualdo Candeias Andréa Bryan, Lurdes Vanucchi Ribas Country Brazil Year 1970 Duration 91' Language Portuguese Subtitle English Format 35 mm Official site www2.uol.com.br/zedocaixao | A group of leading Brazilian psychiatrists have come together to debate the effects of recreational drugs (particularly LSD, marijuana, and cocaine) on their patients, with noted filmmaker Marins in attendance. One proposes an unusual experiment. Gathering four volunteers with long histories of drug abuse, the doctor doses them with LSD and presents them with the fearsome image of Marins' alter-ego, Coffin Joe, and under the influence of the hallucinogen they are taken on a bizarre voyage through the frightening world of Coffin Joe's psyche. Awakening of the Beast was completed in 1969, but after it was rejected by government censors, the film went unreleased in Brazil for 20 years and until this day the film was screened only in film festivals and special screenings. |
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