

85 minutes
6/1/1964
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.

Átila Iório
as Gaúcho

Nelson Xavier
as Mário

Maria Gladys
as Luísa
Leonidas Bayer
as Sargento

Ivan Cândido
as 301

Paulo César Peréio
as Pedro

Hugo Carvana
as José
Mauricio Loyola
as Religious Man

Ruy Polanah
as Bar owner

Joel Barcellos
as Man with dead child

Antônio Pitanga
as Voice

Cecil Thiré
Maria Adélia
Paulo Campos
Hugo Kusnet
Maria Ligia
Billy Davis