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Behind the Sun is a brésilien film of genre Drama directed by Walter Salles released in USA on 12 december 2001 with Rodrigo Santoro

Behind the Sun (2001)

Abril despedaçado

Behind the Sun
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Released in USA 12 december 2001
Length 1h45
Directed by
OriginBresil
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating75% 3.795973.795973.795973.795973.79597

Behind the Sun (Portuguese: Abril Despedaçado) is a 2001 Brazilian film directed by Walter Salles, produced by Arthur Cohn, and starring Rodrigo Santoro. Its original Portuguese title means Shattered April, and it is based on the novel of the same name written by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, about the honor culture in the North of Albania.

Co-produced by Brazil, France, and Switzerland, it was shot entirely in Bahia, taking place in Bom Sossego, a district of the city of Oliveira dos Brejinhos, and in the cities of Caetité and Rio de Contas.

Synopsis

The year is 1910; the place, the badlands of Northeast Brazil. Twenty-year-old Tonho is the middle son of an impoverished farm family, the Breves. He is next in line to kill and then die in an ongoing blood feud with a neighboring clan, the Ferreiras. For generations, the two families have quarreled over land. Now they are locked into a series of tit-for-tat assassinations of their sons; an eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth. Embedded in this choreography of death is a particular code of ethics: "Blood has the same volume for everyone. You have no right to take more blood than was taken from you." Life is suffused with a sense of futility and stoic despair.

Actors

Rodrigo Santoro

(Tonho)Wagner Moura

(Matheus)Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

(Salustiano)Othon Bastos

(Mr. Lourenço)Gero Camilo

(Reginaldo)Caio Junqueira

(Inácio)
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