Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang of dangerous convicts escape from a penal colony. With the police in hot pursuit, the escapees cut a gory swath through the countryside. As his comrades are killed off one by one, the leader of the group descends into gibbering madness. In contrast to this, a subplot develops involving the least dangerous of the escapees, who murdered his wife in a peak of self-righteous rage and is now seriously in doubt about the wisdom of his deed. Principal scenes reworked in 1962 to make the film The Violent and the Damned (q.v.).
Unfortunately the movie Bloody Hands is not yet available on HBO Max.
Sound | Sergio Alvarez | Sound |
Editing | José Cañizares | Editor |
Directing | Carlos Hugo Christensen | Director |
Writing | Sadi Cabral | Dialogue |
Camera | Mario Pagés | Director of Photography |
Directing | Roberto Farias | Assistant Director |
Directing | Darcy Evangelista | Assistant Director |
Directing | Ismar Porto | Assistant Director |
Directing | Ary Fernandes | Assistant Director |
Writing | Pedro Juan Vignale | Screenplay |
Writing | Carlos Hugo Christensen | Screenplay |
Sound | Alexandre Gnatalli | Music |
Sound | Abigail Moura | Music |
Production | Carlos Hugo Christensen | Producer |
Production | Gregorio Walerstein | Producer |
Production | Roberto Acacio | Producer |