Terra Estrangeira (1996)

After the death of her mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to her native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger.

Directors:

Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas

Writers:

Marcos Bernstein, Millor Fernandes,

Stars:

Alberto Alexandre, Fernando Alves Pinto, Alexandre Borges

4 wins.

Cast

Credited cast:
Alberto Alexandre	...	Maitre Machado
Fernando Alves Pinto	...	Paco
Alexandre Borges	...	Miguel
Canto e Castro	...	Porteiro
Laura Cardoso	...	Manuela
António Cara D'Anjo	...	Espanhol 1
Filipe Ferrer	...	Coprador
João Grosso	...	Carlos
Miguel Guilherme	...	André
Miguel Hurst	...	Angolano 3
Tchéky Karyo	...	Kraft
João Lagarto	...	Pedro
Zeka Laplaine	...	Loli
Álvaro Lavín	...	Espanhol 2
Carla Lupi	...	Agente turismo

Storyline

After the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to her native land, as she used to dream with, as an Spanish immigrant. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger as he meets a Brazilian waitress and takes smuggled goods with him in order to pay for his travel.

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Plot Keywords:

death | love | waitress | hotel | politics | 

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Taglines:

The best place to lose someone or to get lose from your own self

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Genres:

Action | Romance | Drama | Crime | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Brazil Portugal

Language:

Portuguese

Release Date:

9 January 1997 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

Foreign Land

Company Credits

Production Co:

VideoFilmes

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Pensa Em Mim"

User Reviews

Ver nice movie

Sorry Russ Karlberg, but you didn't get anything.

The history and the way it was shoot is intensional, to represent a very bad time in Brazilian history, the years between 1980-1994. Inflation, government holding peoples money in bank, etc. The director Walter Salles said he shooted in black and white to show that bad times.

Maybe only Brazilians full understand the meaning of this movie, maybe the history is indeed complicated to the people that do not lived here in that time.

And for Ien Colby, who asked "Also how did they get through the gate, where were the cops?": man, why do you think they went to that very little town? Just for that, so the frontier isn't very guarded. Go there and see for yourself, it's really like that.

I really enjoyed this movie and recommended it, a fine movie like all Walter Salles movies, specially for Brazilians.