A train arrives. A train leaves. Nothing changes — and that's the horror.
Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Paulo in a cycle repeated every day. Viramundo's aim was to question why the military coup d'état in Brazil happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society.
Direction
Sarno's cyclical structure mirrors the migrants' trapped existence.
Cinematography
Black-and-white imagery that weaponizes repetition into despair.
Director
Geraldo Sarno
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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