God Is Brazilian
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Duration | 6/10 IMDb Genre Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy Country Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 31 January 2003 (2003-01-31) Based on O Santo que nao Acreditava em Deus by Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro Writer Joao Emanuel Carneiro, Jose Carvalho (storyline consultant), Carlos Diegues (screenplay), Renata Almeida Magalhaes, Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro (screenplay), Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro (story) Music director Chico Neves, Sergio Mekler, Hermano Vianna Screenplay Carlos Diegues, Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, Joao Emanuel Carneiro, Renata Almeida Magalhaes Cast (Deus), (Taoca), Paloma Duarte (Madá), Bruce Gomlevsky (Quinca das Mulas), Stepan Nercessian (Baudelé), Castrinho (Goró)Similar movies Wagner Moura movies, Movies about Brazil, Comedies Tagline God is getting tired. So he looks for a saint to take his place for a while. |
Hoping to take a vacation, God (Antonio Fagundes) recruits a con artist (Wagner Moura) to help him find a temporary replacement.
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God Is Brazilian (Portuguese: ) is a 2003 Brazilian comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Carlos Diegues, based on a story by Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro. In the film, God, portrayed by Antonio Fagundes, decides to take a vacation and heads to northeastern Brazil to find a saint as a replacement.

God decides to take a vacation - but, first, He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. For that, He goes to Brazil's northeast, where He believes there's a very good man for the job - but, during His mission, He becomes friend of a very smart young man.
Plot
Taoca, a part-time fisherman and small-time con artist, finds a man holding on to a buoy in the middle of the ocean. The man claims he is God, but Taoca doesnt believe him until he performs some miracles.
It seems God has decided to take a break and is searching for someone to temporarily take over. With Taoca, God travels the country in hopes of finding a new saint who is fit for the job. Along the way, they meet a woman, Mada, who joins the two in hopes they will take her to Sao Paulo, where her mother has died.
Eventually, the trio comes across a young man who appears to have the right qualifications, except he has no belief in a higher power.
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