(16 mm, 16 min, color, 1994)

FULL CAST AND CREW

CAST

Pedro Cardoso (professor, Prudente de Morais,
/ peasant, Antonio Conselheiro, reverend)
Debora Finocchiaro (peasant woman, Brasilina)
Antonio Carlos Falcao (Maria Xana)
Carlos Palombini (english officer)
Roberto Birindelli (the translator)
David Cardoso (resistant #1)
Régius Brandão (resistant #2)
Zé da Terreira (resistant #3)
Dejayr Figueira (soldier #1)
Nelson Ebelt (soldier #2)
Ben Berardi (soldier #3)

Carlos Cunha Filho (male narration)
Lisa Becker (female narration)
Antonio Carlos Falcao (narration of the wedding)

CREW

Director: Jorge Furtado
Written by: Jorge Furtado
Executive Producer: Nora Goulart
Production Manager: Sandro Dreyer
Cinematographer: Alex Sernambi
Art Directors: Fiapo Barth
/ and Gaspar Martins
Music by: Leo Henkin
Editor: Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant Director: Dainara Toffoli

2nd Assistant Director: Rodrigo Pesavento
Executive Producer Assistant: Bibi Iankilevich
Costumes by: Rosangela Cortinhas
/ and Flavia Aguiar
Costume Assistant: Elene Abrahao
1st Assistant Camera: Francisco Ribeiro
2nd Assistant Camera: Juliano Lopes Fortes
3rd Assistant Camera: Rafael Mendy
Production Assistants: Tito Mateo
/ Breno Rizzon Filho
/ Alemao Gerson
/ Marcelo Brum
Property Masters: Denise Zelmanovitz
/ Moaci Batsow
Set Technicians: Claudio Costa
/ Airton Bolner
Set Assistants: Andre Santos da Rosa
/ Selmar Drose Pereira
/ Valdir da Silva Santos
Casting by: Cynthia Caprara
Casting Assistant: Jaqueline Concer
Sound Mixers: Cid Costa
/ Antonio Moreira
Assistant Editor: Gustavo Fernandez
Model Makers: Enio Ortiz
/ Cleber Dallavechia
Model Making Assistants: Nana Lorscheider
/ Cristiano Costa
Make-up by: Ceres Rudolfo
Special Make-up: Luis Cabrera

Gaffer: Amaral Júnior
Electricians: Deloir Rodrigues
/ Luis Zoreia
/ Melissandro Bitencourt
Grip: José Enio Chaves
Studio Assistant: Seu Marquinhos
Catering: Eloa Bittencourt
Drivers: Nelson Costa Silva
/ Seu Nelson
/ Marcos Bittencourt
/ Reginaldo Morais André
Still Photographer: Carlos Gerbase
/ Fábio Rebelo
Making-Of: Fábio Lobanowsky
Production Trainee: Pedro Bittencourt

SUPPLIERS

Studios: Zeppelin
/ Cais do Porto
Film Stock: Kodak Eastmancolor 7248 and 7293
Laboratory: Curt and Alex
Music and Voice-over Studio: Versus Comunicações
Sound Studio: CTAv-IBAC

ARCHIVE

Episodes of the film related in
"Os Sertoes"
by Euclides da Cunha

poem "The Great machine"
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

FINANCING

Production: Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre
Co-Production: Uli Möller Filmproduktion GmbH
Apoio cultural: Riocell
/ Quanta Cinematográfica
/ Zeppelin Filme and Vídeo

HISTORY

Filmed in Porto Alegre, in 1994: January 20 (Zeppelin Studio)
and April 4 to 9 (Cais do porto).
Opened at the Gramado Festival, 1994. 
12/08/1994