Perfumed Ball (1996)
- Original title
- Baile Perfumado
- Directed by
- Lírio Ferreira
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Brazil
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 24 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man named Benjamin Abrahão makes friends with Lampião, the feared leader of a bandit group called the Cangaço. He manages to film Lampião's criminal activities, a task the Brazilian army could not do.
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What happens
Perfumed Ball (Portuguese: Baile Perfumado) is a 1996 Brazilian film directed by Lírio Ferreira and Paulo Caldas. Starring Duda Mamberti and Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, it shows the history of how Benjamin Abrahão befriended Lampião, the leader of the Cangaço, and filmed his crimes — a feat the Brazilian army was not able to accomplish. It used footage taken in 1936 for Abrahão's 1959 film Lampião, o Rei do Cangaço. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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