

The Lion Has Seven Heads
1971, Portuguese. Directed by Glauber Rocha.
A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Portuguese
- Rated
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- Released
- 3 August 1971
- Original title
- Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças
- Country
- Brazil, France, Italy, Congo
- Written by
- Glauber Rocha, Gianni Amico
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The Lion Has Seven Heads runs 103 minutes (1h 43m).
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The Lion Has Seven Heads isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 3 August 1971. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Lion Has Seven Heads?
The Lion Has Seven Heads (1971) was directed by Glauber Rocha and stars Rada Rassimov, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Giulio Brogi.