Behind the Sun

2001 · film · FR, CH, BR

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Directed by: Walter Salles

Starring: Rodrigo Santoro, José Dumont, Rita Assemany, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Ravi Ramos Lacerda, Flavia Marco Antonio

Runtime: 95 min

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This film is about a young man torn between duty and rebellion. It matters as a work directed by Walter Salles.

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synopsis — Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
credit — Directed by Walter Salles.

Synopsis

Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.

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