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Director
  
Carlos Diegues

Duration
  

Language
  
Portuguese

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
  
Antônio Fagundes
(Deus),
Wagner Moura
(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.

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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.

Cast

  • Antonio Fagundes as God
  • Wagner Moura as Taoca
  • Paloma Duarte as Mada
  • Hugo Carvana as Quincas Batalha
  • Stepan Nercessian as Baudele
  • Bruce Gomlevsky as Quinca das Mulas
  • Castrinho as Goro
  • Chico de Assis as Cezao
  • Thiago Farias as Messias
  • Susana Werner as Senhorita Aga
  • Toni Garrido as Sao Pedro
  • Cordel do Fogo Encantado

    • References

    God Is Brazilian Wikipedia
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    God Is Brazilian IMDb God Is Brazilian themoviedb.org