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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Rodrigo Santoro
Tonho
José Dumont
Pai
Rita Assemany
Mãe
Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Salustiano
Ravi Ramos Lacerda
Pacu
Flavia Marco Antonio
Clara
Everaldo Pontes
Velho Cego
Caio Junqueira
Inácio
Wagner Moura
Matheus
Othon Bastos
Mr. Lourenço
Mariana Loureiro
Widow
Servílio de Holanda
Isaías
Gero Camilo
Reginaldo
Vinícius de Oliveira
Membro da Família Ferreira
Soia Lira
Membro da Família Ferreira
Walter Salles
Director, Screenplay
Karim Aïnouz
Screenplay
Sérgio Machado
Screenplay
Ismail Kadare
Novel
Mauricio Andrade Ramos
Executive Producer
Lillian Birnbaum
Executive Producer
Arthur Cohn
Producer
Beto Bruno
Producer
Walter Carvalho
Director of Photography
Antonio Pinto
Original Music Composer
Beto Villares
Original Music Composer
Ed Cortês
Original Music Composer
Isabelle Rathery
Editor
Cao Albuquerque
Costume Design
