Three patients, one surgeon, zero time — Brazilian ER chaos at full throttle.
Over a tense day in the emergency hospital, we follow the surgeon's work Evandro and staff in three cases that require risk surgery: a drug dealer, a military police officer and a rich family child, all injured during a shootout in a slum next to the hospital.
Acting
Júlio Andrade's exhausted, magnetic lead performance
Direction
Waddington's suffocating single-location tension
Writing
Tight 85-minute structure, zero fat
Director
Andrucha Waddington
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a real Rio de Janeiro hospital during the 2016 Olympics security crackdowns, capturing Brazil's healthcare collapse in real time.
The three patients represent Brazil's class structure in a trauma ward: the state (cop), the abandoned (dealer), and the privileged (rich child). Evandro's treatment order isn't chronological.
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