Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland.
His visual excess and antinaturalism, style marks, have won Luiz Fernando Carvalho a distinct place on TV. Now he takes a broader sweep, confronting the viewer with a country of extremes, admired for its boundless imagination, but, at the…
Batismo de Sangue: Directed by Helvecio Ratton. With Caio Blat, Daniel de Oliveira, Léo Quintão, Odilon Esteves. During the period of 1964 to 1985, Brazil lived a military dictatorship.