Bacurau

Bacurau (2019)

Timing: 2:11 (131 min)

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7.3/10
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All about film

Video 12

Photo 42

Actors and characters

Release date

2019-08-29

Country

Brazil, France

Production

ARTE France Cinéma, CNC, Globo Filmes, SBS Productions, CinemaScópio, Telecine, Símio Filmes, Canal Brasil, BR Petrobrás, CinemaScópio

Genre

Mystery, Western, Thriller

Budget

$1 430 000

Revenue

$3 554 178

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Director

Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles

Actors

Bárbara Colen, Thomás Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Thardelly Lima, Rubens Santos, Wilson Rabelo, Carlos Francisco, Luciana Souza
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles

Producer

Saïd Ben Saïd, Emilie Lesclaux, Michel Merkt, Dora Amorim

Operator

Pedro Sotero

Composer

Tomaz Alves de Souza

Artist

Audition

Marcelo Caetano

Editing

Eduardo Serrano
All team (37)

• The school shown in the film is named Joao Carpinteiro. In Brazilian Portuguese, this translates to "John Carpenter." The film's director, Kleber Mendonça Filho, is a great admirer of Carpenter's films.
• The village of Bacurau is fictional. In reality, the film was shot in the hamlet of Barra, near the town of Parelhans in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. The village has a population of 80 people, most of whom participated in the production as laborers and extras. After filming was completed, the filmmakers organized a special screening in Barra, which was attended by nearly 3,000 people.
• Approximately 10 years passed between the initial idea for the project and its realization, and the final version of the script was completed three years before the premiere.
• The film was named after the last morning bus route in Recife. The name derives from "nightjar." In the language of the Tupi people (who inhabited almost the entire coast of Brazil before the arrival of Europeans), these birds are called "wakura'wa."
• The film contains references to so-called 'cangaço' (a form of social banditry in Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where people became nomadic bandits roaming the country in search of money, sustenance, and revenge) and to its most famous representative, Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, nicknamed Lampião (1897-1938), whose gang terrorized even small towns.