
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.
Cast

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
Socorro Nobre
Membro da Família Ferreira
Crew

Walter Salles
Director, Screenplay

Sérgio Machado
Screenplay, Casting

Karim Aïnouz
Screenplay

Ismail Kadare
Novel
Isabelle Rathery
Editor

Walter Carvalho
Director of Photography
Mauricio Andrade Ramos
Executive Producer
Lillian Birnbaum
Executive Producer

Maria Carlota Bruno
Executive Producer's Assistant
Beto Bruno
Producer

Arthur Cohn
Producer

Ruth Waldburger
Associate Producer

Carole Scotta
Associate Producer

Jean Labadie
Associate Producer

Caroline Benjo
Associate Producer

Simon Arnal
Associate Producer
Guy Courtecuisse
Post-Production Manager
Beth Accioly
Casting
Cao Albuquerque
Costume Design
Irma Verdugal
Hairstylist
Gabi Moraes
Makeup Artist

Martín Macías Trujillo
Makeup Artist

François Groult
Sound
Beto Villares
Original Music Composer
Antonio Pinto
Original Music Composer
Ed Cortês
Original Music Composer
Marcelo Larrea
Set Decoration
Cassio Amarante
Art Direction
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