Bacurau

Name: Bacurau
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Western
Released: 2019-08-29
Duration: 131 min
Cast: Antonio Saboia, Márcio Fecher, James Turpin, Carlos Francisco, Zoraide Coleto

If you come, come in peace

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Release Date

8/29/2019

Runtime

131 mins

Genres

Thriller Mystery Western

Overview

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

Status

Released

Original Language

Portuguese

Budget

$1,430,000

Revenue

$3,554,178

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A Brazilian backcountry town grieves its matriarch and discovers it's been erased from the map, sparking a slow-burn thriller about collective survival and defiance against invisible forces. The film unfolds as both intimate mourning ritual and escalating social allegory, where landscape and history become weapons.