Dictatorship and a fried chicken.
The Comrades
Os Camaradas
Portuguese with English subtitles | português com legendas em inglês
City of São Paulo, 1969, 5th year of the military dictatorship in Brazil. In the hot Christmas afternoon, a boy takes a roast chicken to an older colleague who works with him at the bank. He never went before to that big old house. All he knows is that it is his friend’s new address. There, the boy finds two unknwon men, who have some questions he will have to answer…
director: Bruno de André
genre: short fiction
duration: 15 min.
format: 35 mm
original title Os Camaradas
year 1997
picture format 35 mm | 1:1,66 | color
sound format Dolby Stereo SR
cast Roberto Bomfim | André G. Lopes | Jesse James
writer & director Bruno de André
story by Wander Piroli
photography Adrian Cooper
art-director Antonio de Freitas
editing Bruno de André
music Peter Roloff
sound José Luíz Sasso
producer Michael Ruman
production Nerofilm and maxim film
Premiere
1997 Latin America Film Festival of Gramado, Brazil – Best Fiction Film – Best Actor – Best Art Direction
Festivals
1997 Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany
1997 International Short Film Festival Santiago de Chile, Chile
1997 International Short Film Festival São Paulo, Brazil
1997 The Charleston International Film Festival, USA
1997 Int. Festival of New Latin American Cinema Havanna, Cuba
1998 Filmtage Tübingen Cine Latino, Germany
1998 Tage des unabhängigen Films Osnabrück, Germany
1998 Cartagena Filmfestival, Colombia
1998 Worldfest Houston, USA
1998 Curitiba Latin-American Film Fest, Brazil
1998 Festival Cinema Jove Valencia. Spain
1998 International Film Festival Figueira da Foz ,Portugal
1998 Amnesty International Film Festival Amsterdam. The Netherlands
1998 Los Angeles International ShortFilms, USA
1998 Festival d. Cinema Latino Milano, Italy
1998 Amiens International Film Festival, France
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