Documentary HELENA TASSARA

Co-production:

Fundação Padre Anchieta - TV Cultura

SESCTV

Superfilmes

THE KING GOAT, documentary by Helena Tassara, was one of JANELA BRASIL 2007 contest winners and seeks to present to the public a reality of the "Invisible Brazil" competition theme.

Recorded in 2007 in several regions of the Northeast, the documentary focuses on the lives of two goats. It also gives voice to creators, popular artists, merchants and other figures whose life is deeply connected to these animals, as Ariano Suassuna and Manelito Dantas Vilar. It also has the special participation of Zeca Baleiro, among other artists, reading and interpretation of texts. The original music is by Fabio Tagliaferri and Paul Tatit.

The proposal of the director, Helena Tassara, was to embark on a fun and rich documentary, ponctuated by real or imaginary stories to illustrate the essence of the personality of its protagonists and their relationship with men and women Northeastern. The film is also full of musical references, literary, poetic and iconography of the subject.

The production didn´t interfere in the traditional animal slaughter methods and recorded like they are performed.

In the semi-arid northeast, in the region of Caatinga, in the “sertão”, it is usual to say that it is not the man who raises the goat, but the goat who raises the man. Is also said that from the goat, one can use even its scream. 

And so it is. That's why, in this documentary, the main characteres are these: the male and female goats. 

Many times treated by the northest-man like almost human beings, partners in misfortunes and journeys, they carry a lot of hostory. Everyone knows that. However, what most people don't know is that without goats the semi-arid Brazilian northeast would have already become a lifeless desert.