The Fall

An accident at a construction site resulting in one death sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fastpaced conservative modernisation at the hands of the military As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns 1964 following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited it offers more than a snapshot of the period the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films and therefore also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments Equally daring in content and form and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other it won the Silver Bear at Berlin