Os Deuses Estão Mortos (1971)

In 1889 Brazil, two families fight for control of Ouro Negro, a city in the interior of the state of São Paulo: one defends the established monarchy, the other the new republican ideal. The economy based on the slavery of imported Africans is at the center of the contention, as well as the romantic affairs of the young members of both families. The Baron is cruel and seems to control everything and everybody, particularly since a half-blind beggar he mistreated predicted "You'll never fall dead!" In Portugal, a couple is about to marry, but the young man falls madly in love with Portuguese singer Eugénia Castro (Amália Rodrigues) and follows her to Brazil. The young woman has her heart broken, and soon after her father dies, forcing her to return to Brazil with her mother. Not knowing each other's whereabouts, they live parallel lives in two near cities. The republican pasionaria stirs enough poets and politicians to get a new law to be approved, liberating all the slaves - At the Baron's lands, the slaves march to the manor house to demand their freedom, or else. The Baron meets them at the door, refusing to abide by the law and ready to start killing the men, recalling the prediction that he will never fall dead--when he dies of a heart attack, on his feet, held up by a metal circle on his front door. The singer returns to Portugal--and the young man is ready to seek again his first romantic love.