Satan shows up to gentrify a dying village and honestly? He's the most reasonable one there.
In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled with the chance of overtaking the place.
Acting
Jofre Soares's blind patriarch anchors the madness with gravitas.
Direction
Soares blends social realism with folkloric nightmare logic.
Production
Rural Brazilian locations feel genuinely cursed, not decorated.
Director
Paulo Gil Soares
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Brazil's 1960s Cinema Marginal movement, rejecting polished studio productions for raw regional storytelling.
The oil discovery mirrors real 1960s Brazilian extraction economies—Satan as colonial capitalism, basically dressed better.
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