Director: Walter Salles
Writer(s): Walter Salles, Sérgio Machado, Karim Aïnouz, Ismail Kadare
Actor(s): Rodrigo Santoro, José Dumont, Rita Assemany, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Ravi Ramos Lacerda, Flavia Marco Antonio, Everaldo Pontes, Caio Junqueira, Mariana Loureiro, Servillio De Holanda, Wagner Moura, Othon Bastos, Gereno Camilio
Production Co.: Imagem Filmes
Country: Brazil
Year: 2001
Language and subtitle information: In Portuguese with optional Portuguese, English and French subtitles
Format: DVD
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Summary: Two families, who both grow sugar cane, have been squabbling over the ownership of a piece of land for years. The disagreement then turned violent. The Breveses, a much smaller family, have been suffering more than their rivals and a steady drop in sugar prices has also left the family with little but their pride. When the eldest son of the Breves family is killed, his father orders his next-oldest son to kill one of the Ferreira boys. He finds himself questioning the wisdom of this bloody rivalry, and he ponders his fate while spending time with his younger brother. Based on the homonymous novel Prill i Thyer (Broken April) by award winning Albanian author Ismail Kadare.
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