(QUEIMADA, Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy/France 1969, 132 min., Italian/subtitles)

Marlon Brando (in what he considered his best performance) plays William Walker, a British agent who is sent to a Caribbean Island in 1845 to teach black sugar plantation workers the art of revolution against the Portuguese landowners. Based on histrorical fact, this rousing political adventure set to the equally inspiring music of Ennio Morricone will be presented here in its original Italian release version, which restores 20 minutes of footage never before shown in the US.