In 1963, in the village of Milagres in a very poor area of Brazil, a group of soldiers arrive to protect the store of a politician from a group of starving people. They have rifles for guarding the food and avoid the s...展开acking by the population. One of the soldiers, completely drunken, kills a local in a dispute with his colleagues for killing a goat. The truck driver Gaúcho (Átila Iório) revolts against the passivity of a father that has just lost his little daughter, who died of starvation, and the pacific population that only prays and follows a preacher, and fights against the soldiers.
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雷.圭雷拉是巴西新电影运动中的另一位电影大师,他1964年所拍摄的《步枪》与多斯桑托斯的《贫瘠的生活》和罗查的《太阳帝国里的上帝与魔鬼》成为奠定巴西新电影运动的三块奠基石,60年代初所诞生的巴西新电影运动以“手中的摄影机,心中的思想”为口号,着力于制作低成本的,但又具有深刻社会现实意义,关注人们和底层社会生活的影片,而《步枪》正是这样一部现实主义的杰作,与《太阳帝国里的上帝与魔鬼》相比,这部影片少了些象征主义和神秘主义元素,而把镜头直接对准巴西最贫苦的一个村庄的人们,描写他们用步枪来防止其他贫穷村庄的人来抢夺他们的食物,而最后却误杀了自己的亲人,真实而残酷地表现了巴西底层人民的苦难生活。1965年柏林国际电影节银熊奖。