Burn!
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English language theatrical poster
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| Directed by | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| Produced by | Alberto Grimaldi |
| Written by |
Franco Solinas Giorgio Arlorio |
| Starring |
Marlon Brando Evaristo Márquez |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography |
Marcello Gatti Giuseppe Ruzzolini |
| Edited by | Mario Morra |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Release date
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1969 |
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Running time
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112 minutes (United States) 132 minutes (Restored) |
| Country | Italy France |
| Language | Italian Spanish Portuguese |
Burn! (Italian: Queimada) is a 1969 Italian-French war drama film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and starring Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez and Renato Salvatori. The music was composed by Ennio Morricone. The fictional story focuses on the creation of a banana republic in the Caribbean, and the events that follow it. Brando plays a British secret government agent, named after the American filibuster William Walker, who manipulates a slave revolt to serve the interests of the sugar trade.
The British government sends Sir William Walker (Brando), an agent provocateur, to the fictional island of Queimada, a Portuguese possession in the Lesser Antilles. Britain seeks to open the island to exploitation by the fictional Antilles Royal Sugar Company. Walker's task is to organize an uprising of African slaves against the Portuguese regime, which the British intend to replace with a government dominated by pliable white planters.
When he arrives in Queimada, Walker befriends José Dolores (Márquez), whom he entices to lead the slave revolt, and induces leading landowners to reject Portuguese rule. Dolores's rebellion is successful, and Walker arranges the assassination of the Portuguese governor in a nighttime coup. Walker establishes a puppet regime beholden to British sugar interests, headed by the idealistic but weak revolutionary Teddy Sanchez (Salvatori). Walker convinces Dolores to recognize the new regime and to surrender his arms, in exchange for the abolition of slavery. Having succeeded in his mission, he returns to Britain.
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