A busca deste texto será a de compreender como uma das mais importantes narrativas do cinema nacional - Deus e o Diabo na terra do sol, de Glauber Rocha (1963) - construiu o sertão, quais as imagens e as figuras utilizadas, ecomo esse sertão delineia e projeta o Brasil.
This article tries to understand how one of the most important narratives of the national cinema - Glauber Rocha's Black God, white devil (1963) - has constructed the sertão (hinterland), which images and figures he has employed, and how that hinterland delineates and projects the country.