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Duration
  

Language
  
Portuguese

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Genre
  
Drama

Country
  
Brazil

Perfumed Ball movie poster

Director
  
Lirio Ferreira Paulo Caldas

Release date
  
1996 (1996) (Festival de Brasilia) July 26, 1997 (1997-07-26)

Writer
  
Paulo Caldas, Lirio Ferreira, Hilton Lacerda

Directors
  
Lirio Ferreira, Paulo Caldas

Music director
  
Chico Science, Fred Zero Quatro, Lucio Maia, Paulo Rafael, Sergio Siba Veloso

Screenplay
  
Lirio Ferreira, Paulo Caldas, Hilton Lacerda

Cast
  
Duda Mamberti
(Benjamin Abrahão),
Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
(Lampião),
Aramis Trindade
(Tenente Lindalvo Rosas),
Joffre Soares
(Padre Cícero),
Chico Diaz
(Cel. João Libório),
Germano Haiut
(Ademar Albuquerque)

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O Último Dia de Lampião

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 Cangaço, and filmed his crimes—a feat Brazilian army was not able to. It used footages took in 1936 for Abrahão's 1959 film Lampião, o Rei do Cangaço.

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Perfumed Ball movie scenes

Cast

  • Duda Mamberti as Benjamin Abrahão
  • Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos as Lampião
  • Aramis Trindade as lieutenant Lindalvo Rosas
  • Chico Diaz as colonel Zé de Zito
  • Jofre Soares as Padre Cícero
  • Cláudio Mamberti as colonel João Libório
  • Germano Haiut as Ademar Albuquerque
  • Zuleica Ferreira as Maria Bonita

    • Reception

    It entered the 1996 Festival de Brasília, where it won the Best Film, Best Newcomer Director, Best Art Direction (Adão Pinheiro), Best Supporting Actor (Aramis Trindade) awards, and shared the Critic's Choice Award with Um Céu de Estrelas. It was released on Brazilian theatres on July 26, 1997. It was shown at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival, at the 1998 Chicago Latino Film Festival, and won the Coral Prize for Bestil Film Poster at the 19th Havana Film Festival. and is considered an important mark in Pernambuco's cinema industry, being one of the Pernambuco's first films to be acclaimed by international critics. For example, Deborah Young of Variety said it "has a deliberately naive look that keeps it fresh, plus amusing dialogue and cast." She especially praised its "imaginative camera style" as it "uses a quasi-expressionist palette and camera angles".

    References

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