The Guns (1964) review

Troops are sent to the Northeast Region of Brazil (specifically the state of Bahia) in order to guard the food supply (mostly onions, apparently) and yet the villagers are homeless and hungry - while stationed there, all they really do is hang out in the hot sun, drink a lot, soldier Mário (Nelson Xavier) tries (forcefully) to seduce peasant girl Luísa (Maria Gladys) and one of them accidentally shoots a man (who's walking his goat) and they try to cover it up.  Although this is well regarded in its country, it takes half of its meager running time for anything resembling drama to develop, and then it needs a small child dying of starvation for the locals to actually try to rise up which is when the movie is briefly rattled out of its sense of complacency.  I've never been to Brazil and admit I could be missing some "finer points" a resident would be able to pick up on, but its main message seems to be "military personnel tend to be reckless" ... which isn't a major revelation.