BirdWatchers - La terra degli uomini rossi (2008)

Director:

Marco Bechis

Writers:

Marco Bechis (writer) &
Luiz Bolognesi (writer) ...

Release Date:

28 November 2008 (Brazil)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

When a tribe of indigenous Guarani Indians attempts to re-inhabit their ancestral land, which lies on the border of a wealthy landowner's fields, tensions escalate.

Plot Keywords:

Indians | South America | Teenager | Indigenous Culture | Suicide

Awards:

1 win & 5 nominations

Cast

Claudio Santamaria	...	Roberto
Alicélia Batista Cabreira	...	Lia
Chiara Caselli	...	Beatrice
Abrísio da Silva Pedro	...	Osvaldo
Matheus Nachtergaele	...	Dimas
Ambrósio Vilhava	...	Nádio
Ademilson Concianza Verga	...	Irineu
Leonardo Medeiros	...	Moreira - the farmer
Eliane Juca da Silva	...	Mami
Fabiane Pereira da Silva	...	Maria
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Taiane Arce	...	Kinha
César Chedid	...	Farmer
Temily Comar	...	Maria's friend
Nelson Concianza	...	Nhanderu
Luciane da Silva	...	Rosália
Camila Caetano Ferreira	...	Elma
Inéia Arce Gonçalves	...	Maid
Urbano Palácio	...	Josimar
Poli Fernandez Souza	...	Tito
Luiz Mário Vicente	...	Attorney general

Also Known As:

Birdwatchers (International: English title) (UK)
Terra Vermelha (Brazil)

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

Italy | Brazil

Language:

Portuguese | Guarani | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Sweden:7 | UK:15 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Portugal:M/12

Filming Locations:

Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Company:

Classic

Quotes:

[last lines]
Osvaldo: I won, you lost!

Soundtrack:

Sacris solemnis

Out of customary commonplace

A dull first time, poor dialogues, ordinary plot and mediocre casting make this movie a second-rate title; by the way I appreciated it for a skill: director Marco Bechis is good not to take sides in the argument setting against two positions and showing all the troubles and the motivations which each delegate of the two sects argues. Unfortunately all this is not enough to make a title interesting. I think if you have not read something about the plot before watching maybe you can't understand what the title is dealing with, to the contrary understanding it at the last ten minutes doesn't permit to consider it a movie to see. Finally a consideration about Indians: this is not a movie in which they kill, massacre, slaughter everybody: they are represented like a civil folk, with their difficulties and their daily feelings: it's out of customary cliché of wild Indians!