Terra Estrangeira
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Walter Salles
Fernanda Torres
Fernando Alves Pinto
Luis Melo
Alexandre Borges
Laura Cardoso
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A film about a generation and a country in crisis: In March of 1990, Fernando Collor de Mello, the first elected president in Brazil after thirty years of military dictatorship, implemented an extreme economic plan which, in practice, confiscated Brazilian savings accounts. The country was thrown into chaos, and more than 800,000 young Brazilians had to leave their country to search for more opportunites... Fernando Alves Pinto is Paco, a young man who lives in Sao Paulo and is the son of a Spanish emigrant. Fernanda Torres is Alex, a Brazilain woman who lives in Lisbon, Portugal, trying to make ends meet. She is faced daily with the crude reality of having to live in another country. Igor, a shady antique dealer, recruits Paco to take a violin full of uncut diamonds to Lisbon. There, the destinies of Alex and Paco collide.
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Released in United States 1996
Released in United States 1998
Released in United States Fall October 24, 1997
Released in United States January 1996
Released in United States October 1996
Released in United States on Video November 7, 2000
Shown at Museum of Modern Art (Cinema Novo and Beyond) in New York City November 27 & December 10, 1998.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Tiger Awards) January 24 - February 4, 1996.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema) in Park City, Utah January 18-28, 1996.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival October 4-20, 1996.
Released in United States 1996 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Tiger Awards) January 24 - February 4, 1996.)
Released in United States 1998 (Shown at Museum of Modern Art (Cinema Novo and Beyond) in New York City November 27 & December 10, 1998.)
Released in United States January 1996 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema) in Park City, Utah January 18-28, 1996.)
Released in United States October 1996 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival October 4-20, 1996.)
Released in United States on Video November 7, 2000
Released in United States Fall October 24, 1997
