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A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar (2000)

A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar poster
Directed by
Flávio Cândido
Genre
drama film
Country
Brazil
Runtime
1h 44m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In a fictional Brazilian town, a communist barber and a local colonel clash over a real estate scheme involving a hydroelectric plant. The story moves across three time periods, showing the same characters aging only in the setting around them.

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What happens

A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar é um filme brasileiro de 2000 escrito e dirigido por Flávio Cândido. O filme se passa numa cidade fictícia (Burruchaga) do interior do Rio de Janeiro e percorre três épocas diferentes: 1964, 1979 e dias de hoje. Todo o ambiente, incluindo figurino e trilha sonora, envelhece, menos os personagens. A história é sobre um barbeiro comunista (Bolívar) e um "coronel" (Gaudêncio) que manda no lugar. Este trama um golpe imobiliário com a construção de uma usina hidrelétrica, mas o plano é descoberto por Bolívar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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