Credited cast: | |||
Claudio Santamaria | ... | Roberto | |
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Alicélia Batista Cabreira | ... | Lia |
Chiara Caselli | ... | Beatrice | |
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Pedro Abrísio da Silva | ... | Osvaldo |
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Matheus Nachtergaele | ... | Dimas |
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Ambrósio Vilhava | ... | Nádio |
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Ademilson Concianza Verga | ... | Irineu |
Leonardo Medeiros | ... | Moreira - the farmer | |
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Eliane Juca da Silva | ... | Mami |
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Fabiane Pereira da Silva | ... | Maria |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Taiane Arce | ... | Kinha |
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César Chedid | ... | Farmer |
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Temily Comar | ... | Maria's friend |
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Nelson Concianza | ... | Nhanderu |
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Luciane da Silva | ... | Rosália |
A boat with tourists is sailing up the river through the jungle. Suddenly they come face-to-face with Indians, naked apart from their paint, with self-made weapons at the ready. The tourists sail on excitedly. The Indians put on their jeans and collect their daily wages. The Guarani, one of Brazil's oldest Indian communities, are forced to live in a reservation. A small group of Guarani decide to leave the reservation and settle in a traditional territory that has belonged to white men for several generations. The clash between two conflicting cultures is conceived as a suspense story with mystical elements. The actors are real Indians with no actor training. Written by Warsaw Film Festival
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!