
Paulete, the star of a daring theater group, is visited by his military brother-in-law, the young Fininha. A torrid relationship arises between the two, and now the soldier must deal with the prevailing repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Official trailer from TMDB

Clécio

Fininha

Paulete

Deusa

Professor Joubert

Soldado Gusmão
Tuca

Dona Albanita

Ceminha
Zózima
Maroca
Jandira
Hilton Lacerda
Hilton Lacerda
Nara Aragão, João Vieira Jr.






5/18/2023
This is a baudy, homophilic story of the struggle of art under autocratic, repressive, religious, censorious regimes. Oh wait - Isn't that nearly every government in the world? I'm giving this a 7 but I have a very strong suspicion that the release we saw has been cut to shreds. (Typical American distributions.) This won awards in the Rio IFF which is no small accomplishment, so it's probably an 8 or 9 in the original. Our version didn't clearly convey the political content of the film.
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