At the Edge of the Earth

On 17 May 1931 the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece Limite in a premiere in Capitólio Theater in Rio de Janeiro to astonished audiences bewildered by the impressive and poetic images Considered by many viewers the best Brazilian movie ever made this feature has never been released commercially However in a great paradox Mário Peixoto has never made any other movie The director Sérgio Machado pays a great tribute to the life and work Mário Peixoto aka Maçarico by his close friends with this documentary using his diary footages of Limite the never concluded Onde a Terra Acaba 1933 and the short O Homem do Morcego 1980 and interesting testimonies of Olga Breno Ruy Solberg Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Walter Salles among others