That Man from Rio

(1964)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 358 votes

Genres: Adventure, Action, Comedy

Year: 1964

Runtime: 112 мин

Country: Brazil, France

Director: Philippe de Broca

Cast: Жан-Поль Бельмондо, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais, Simone Renant, Адольфо Чели, Roger Dumas, Daniel Ceccaldi, Ubiracy De Oliveira, Milton Ribeiro, Lucien Raimbourg

Plot

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.

Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her sweetheart, Adrien, an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy), foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must traverse Rio, Brasília, and the Amazon heartland... all before the end of his week's leave.