Burn!

Name: Burn!
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Released: 1969-01-01

1969 film by Gillo Pontecorvo

FilmfilmQ2054677

Released: 1969
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Screenwriter: Franco Solinas
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
Cast: Marlon Brando
, Renato Salvatori
, Dana Ghia
, Giampiero Albertini
+2 more
Runtime: 129 min
Genre: drama film
Country of origin: Italy
, France

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Burn! is a 1969 historical war drama film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Set in the mid-19th century, the film stars Marlon Brando as a British agent provocateur sent to overthrow a Portuguese colony in the Caribbean by manipulating a slave revolt to serve the interests of the sugar trade, and the complications that arise from the formation of a subsequent puppet state.

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Director of photography: Marcello Gatti
Narrative location: Caribbean
Film editor: Mario Morra
Color: color
Filmiroda rating: Category III rating certificate id: F/10163/J
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1.Stated in terjesztesre_kerulo_filmalkotasok_nyilvantartasa.xlsx
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FSK film rating: FSK 16
Title: Queimada
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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1.cnc.fr/professionnels/visas-et-classification/35178
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Distribution format: video on demand
Set in environment: fictional island
Review score: 80%(December 29, 2024) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 15 critic review
72/100(August 2, 2024) review score by: Metacritic · number of reviews/ratings: 4 critic review
6.8/10(October 7, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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1.Stated in Rotten Tomatoes“Burn!”Retrieved 2021-10-07
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Kijkwijzer rating: 16 content descriptor: Violence
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1.kijkwijzer.nl/films/burn-queimada/Retrieved 2025-07-15
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Set in period: 19th century
Depicts: slavery
colonialism

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