Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
Direction
Mendonça Filho's clinical eye for bureaucratic evil.
Acting
Wagner Moura disappears into three fractured selves.
Cinematography
Carnival colors curdling into surveillance-state rot.
Director
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Wagner Moura
Marcelo Alves / Armando Solimões / Fernando Solimões
Alice Carvalho
Fátima
Gabriel Leone
Bobbi
Isabél Zuaa
Tereza Victória
Maria Fernanda Cândido
Elza
Udo Kier
Hans
Rubens Santos
Natalício
Licínio Januário
Antônio
Joálisson Cunha
Frentista
Marcelo Valle
João Carpinteiro
Fabiana Pirro
Dra. Inês
Hermila Guedes
Cláudia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'ditadura militar brasileira' (1964-1985) saw thousands 'disappeared'; Mendonça Filho's own family archives reportedly influenced the film's documentary-like interludes.
Wagner Moura spent months in Recife dialect coaching for three distinct regional accents — listen for how Marcelo's coastal softness hardens into Armando's clipped paranoia.
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