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also known as Cinema, aspirinas e urubus
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures2005
In the middle of northeastern Brazil in 1942, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought. Although their personalities and lives are worlds apart, the two men develop a deep friendship, as Johan, in an effort to provide Ranulpho with job skills, teaches Ranulpho to run the film projector and drive a truck. In this deliberately-paced road film, Marcelo Gomes reminds us that war is as close as Johan’s radio, broadcasting its relentless warnings that all lives are changed when the world is in conflict.
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- Lúcia do Acordeon - Sanfoneira
- Veronica Cavalcanti - Maria da Paz
- Jorge Clésio - Funcionário dos Correios
- Daniela Câmara - Neide
- Mano Fialho - Caçador
- Francisco Figueiredo - Rapaz na Estrada
- Paula Francinete - Lindalva
- Hermila Guedes - Jovelina
- Sandro Guerra - Homem da Cobra
- Peter Ketnath - Johann
- José Leite - Dono do Restaurante
- Nanego Lira - Funcionário da Estação de Trem
- Arilson Lopes - Dono do Posto de Gasolina
- Zezita Matos - Mulher da Galinha
- João Miguel - Ranulpho
- Oswaldo Mil - Claudionor Assis
- Fabiana Pirro - Adelina
- Irandhir Santos - Manoel