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Title: The Assailant (2009)
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Aílton Carmo | ... | Besouro |
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Jéssica Barbosa | ... | Dinorá / Iemanjá |
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Flávio Rocha | ... | Coronel Venâncio |
| Irandhir Santos | ... | Noca de Antônia | |
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Mestre Alipio | ... | Macalé |
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Ânderson Santos de Jesus | ... | Quero-Quero |
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Leno Sacramento | ... | Chico Canoa |
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Cris Vianna | ... | Teresa |
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Sérgio Laurentino | ... | Exu |
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Geísa Costa | ... | Zulmira |
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Nilton Júnior | ... | Cobra-Criada |
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Servílio de Holanda | ... | Genival |
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Antônio Fábio | ... | Serafim (as Antonio Fabio) |
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Adriana Alves | ... | Oxum |
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Miguel Lunardi | ... | Capanga |
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Based on the life of a legendary capoeira fighter from Bahia, "Besouro" spins a fantastic tale of a young Brazilian man of African descent in search of his mission.
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african brazilian religion | african divinity | capoeira | martial arts | sugarcane |Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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'Besouro' is the word in Portuguese for beetle. See more »Quotes
Noca de Antônia: As long as you give the vulture the right meat, it opens the beak.See more »
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Although filmed with a sort of contemporary touch in aesthetics and camera works this film is a let down. The character never seem to capture the viewer who is simply rambling through the cliché far-fetched kind of plans. It seems to try to compensate in aesthetic exacerbation what it lacks in simplicity and dramatic quality. It comes out as a hard to develop kind of thing and it simply doesn't take advantage of so many possibilities left to explore, from the actual roots of capoeira, to the potential in most of the characters. The characters are also a bunch of stereotypical sketch and never leave that numb state to let out some actual personality. Everyone just goes where they're expected to go and do what they are supposed to do. That's nothing else than lack of inventiveness and failure to capture the essence of smaller and less obvious connections. Not totally a waste of time, but almost. Not recommended.