
Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the International Submission to the Academy Awards (2002)
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Setting
Set in Brazil
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Walter Carvalho
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Karim AïnouzScreenplay
- Sérgio MachadoScreenplay
- Walter SallesScreenplay
- Ismail KadareNovel
- Original title
- Abril Despedaçado
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 12, 2001
- Original language
- Portuguese
- Countries
- France, Switzerland, Brazil
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In the United States
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