Abril Despedaçado
Behind the Sun
Switzerland, September 2001
FILM,
Fiction,
99 min.
- directed by
- Walter Salles
- Written by
- Walter Salles, Sergio Machado, Karim Aïnouz
- Status
- In distribution
The Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older bother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the 20 years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacú. That’s when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho’s family lives...
Praterie brasiliane, aprile 1910. Tonho, per ordine del padre, deve vendicare la morte del fratello maggiore. Il giovane sa che, se commetterà il crimine, la sua vita cambierà per sempre: i vent’anni che ha già vissuto e i pochi giorni che gli resteranno da vivere. È lacerato tra il desiderio di compiere il suo dovere ancestrale e quello di ribellarsi, esortato dal fratello minore Pacú. Quando un piccolo circo itinerante attraversa le sterminate praterie dove vive la famiglia di Tonho...
credits
- World Premiere
- September 2001
- Original Version
- Portuguese, colour, 99 min.
- Production
- Arthur Cohn
- Producer
- Arthur Cohn
- directed by
- Walter Salles
- Written by
- Walter Salles, Sergio Machado, Karim Aïnouz
- Cinematography
- Walter Carvalho
- Editing
- Isabelle Rathery
Festivals
(a selection)
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Venice, 58. Mostra Int. d'Arte Cinematografica
29.08.2001 - 08.09.2001