For his first in a long series of wildly imaginative literary adaptations, dos Santos reinvented Nelson Rodrigues' novel about a pathological gangster with solid gold teeth and a voracious appetite for women and power. Embracing radically modernist narrative techniques, Golden Mouth offers a splintered, refractive portrait of brutal masculinity that returns repeatedly to the same moment from different vantages, each time revealing unexpected perspectives on the brutal yet strangely charming criminal. Lurid and disturbing, Golden Mouth delivers a savage satire of marriage and class pretensions, revealing a similar venality at the corroded heart of the sanctimonious bourgeoisie, the moneyed elite and the working class as they all mercilessly claw their way up and down the rickety and ruthlessly hierarchical Brazilian social ladder. -Harvard Film Archive
Unfortunately the movie Golden Mouth is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Director |
Sound | Remo Usai | Original Music Composer |
Writing | Nelson Rodrigues | Original Story |
Production | Jece Valadão | Associate Producer |
Costume & Make-Up | Paulo Carias | Makeup Artist |
Sound | Alberto Vianna | Sound |
Production | Raimundo Higino | Production Manager |
Production | Arnaldo Zonari | Associate Producer |
Sound | Jorge Dos Santos | Sound |
Writing | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Writer |
Camera | Edson Rosa | Assistant Camera |
Sound | Geraldo José | Sound |
Production | Gilberto Perrone | Producer |
Directing | Ivan de Souza | Assistant Director |
Camera | José Rosa | Camera Operator |
Production | Jarbas Barbosa | Producer |
Editing | Rafael Justo Valverde | Editor |
Sound | Nelson Ribeiro | Sound |
Crew | Amleto Daissé | Cinematography |
Art | José Cajado Filho | Art Direction |