- A Praga
Infobox Film
name = A Praga
caption = Brazilian film poster
director =Jose Mojica Marins
producer = Jose Mojica Marins
writer = Jose Mojica MarinsRubens Francisco Luchetti
starring = FelipeSílvia Gless Wanda Kosmo
music =
cinematography =Giuseppe Romero
editing =Nilcemar Leyart
distributor =
released = 1980
runtime = 80 min
country = BRA
language = Portuguese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0260293"A Praga " (english: "The Plague") is a 1980 Brazilian
horror film byBrazil ianfilm director José Mojica Marins . Marins is also known by hisalter ego Zé do Caixão (in English, Coffin Joe).cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260293/|title=A Praga|publisher=IMDb|language=English|accessdate=2008-07-04]Plot
The film is about a young couple that goes on a trip and unknowingly takessome pictures of a strange elderly lady (played by the late Wanda Kosmo) who is eventually revealed to be a sinister witch. The witch then places a
curse on the man. A wound opens in his side, which has an agonizing hunger that he must feed with raw meat in order to stop the burning pain. Perplexing his doctors and becoming hungrier as the film progresses, the man becomes delerious and murders his wife, thinking she will leave him. The witch then reappears and coaxes him into feeding the wound with his wife's dead body. The separate skeletons were discovered lying next to each other by police months later.cite web|url=http://www2.uol.com.br/zedocaixao/cinema/25_apraga.htm|title=A Praga|date=2006|publisher=Official site of Zé do Caixão|language=Portuguese|accessdate=2008-07-05]Production
The film was mostly shot in
Super 8 mm film in1980 , but the footage was shelved due to lack of resources to finish it. During the preparations of a majorretrospective of his work that took place inSão Paulo andBrazil in2007 , for which brand new35 mm film prints of no less than 25 films were made , Mojica and producer Eugenio Puppo decided to finish the film. Puppo put together the raw material, shot additional scenes, edited and supervised the post-production process, and the result was shown to those who attended the retrospective. Puppo and Mojica are now looking for a way to transfer the film to 35mm. A Praga is expected to travel around international festivals.cite web|url=http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/coffin-joes-lost-film-recovered-and-restored-first-images-from-a-praga/|title=Coffin Joe’s Lost Film Recovered And Restored! First Images From A PRAGA!|last=Brown|first=Todd|date=February 23, 2008|publisher=twitch.com|language=English|accessdate=2008-07-04]The story is also featured in Marins' graphic novel series "O Estranho Mundo de Zé do Caixão" in the issue "A Praga" (V.1, #2).
Cast
*Felipe
*Sílvia Gless
*Wanda Kosmo References
External links
*imdb title|id=0260293|title=A Praga
*imdb name|id=0596261|name=José Mojica Marins
*"A Praga" at the [http://www2.uol.com.br/zedocaixao/cinema/25_apraga.htm Official Zé do Caixão site] pt icon
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