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Behind the Sun (2001) | User Rating
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Original title: Abril Despedaçado
Release Date
• USA: Dec 12, 2001
• UK: 8 Mar 2002
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MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 45 minutes
Country Brazil, France, Switzerland
Studio Miramax Films
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Behind the Sun (2002)
• Abril Despedaçado
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Genre: Drama, Revenge
Plot: BEHIND THE SUN takes place in 1910, in the small town of Stream-of-Souls, Brazil, where two families have been engaged in a long battle for control of what appears to be nearly barren land. The Breves clan--mother, father, 20-year-old Tonio, and little Pacu (called the kid), are a poor family struggling to make it with their small sugarcane mill that has outlived its usefulness. In front of their house, a bloodied shirt swings in the breeze, the sun slowly fading the red stain surrounding a hole. When the bloodstain turns yellow, Tonio sets out to hunt down the Ferreira brother who killed the eldest Breves child, Inácio. The chase scene through the forest is stunningly shot by cinematographer Waler Carvalho. After Tonio accomplishes his mission, it becomes his turn to wait for the bloodied Ferreira shirt to turn yellow, after which the next-in-line Ferreira brother will come after him.Walter Salles, whose previous film was the touching CENTRAL STATION, has brilliantly adapted Ismaďl Kadaré's book BROKEN APRIL, moving the blood feud to Brazil from Albania. The futility of the family battle is made clear through beautiful shots of the vast desert landscape that physically separates the two families as their next generation perishes one by one. Rodrigo Santoro, a captivating
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| Directed by |
Walter Salles
The Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station, Dark Water |
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Karim Ainouz
Lower City, Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus, Madame Sata | |
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