Ala-Arriba! (film)
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Ala-Arriba! is a 1942 Portuguese romantic docufiction set in Póvoa de Varzim, a traditional Portuguese fishing town.
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Directed by | José Leitão de Barros |
Written by | Alfredo Cortez Augusto de Santa-Ritta (poems) |
Produced by | Tobis Portuguesa |
Starring | Domingos Gonçalves Elsa Bela-Flor Luís Pinto Maria Mesquita (Olguim) Madalena Vilaça |
Music by | Ruy Coelho |
Distributed by | Internacional Filmes Sonoro Filme |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Language | Portuguese |
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Dealing with ethnographic matters, it may be considered as an ethnofiction. The film was directed by Leitão de Barros, and stars real fishermen as themselves in order to give a realistic view over traditions and social behaviours of the community. Focusing the cultural context, it continuously shifts from documentary to drama, by means of a fictional narrative. Contemporary to Robert Flaherty, Barros is with him one of the first filmmakers to explore docufiction and ethnofiction as forms of dramatic narrative.