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Behind the Sun

Behind the Sun

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 12, 2001

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Drama

User Score

73%

Original Title

Abril Despedaçado

Production Companies

VideoFilmes, Bac Films, Dan Valley Film AG, Haut et Court, Miramax

Director

Walter Salles

Description

Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.