2009 // 95 MINS // ACTION, MARTIAL ART // DVCAM // AUSTRALASIAN PREMIERE

Director: Joao Daniel Tikhomiroff
Screenwriter: Patricia Andrade
Editor: Gustavo Giani
Photography: Christian Cravo
Music: Pupillo, Tejo Damasceno, Rica Amabis, Gilberto Gil
Producers: Vicente Amorim, Joao Daniel Tikhomiroff, Gil Ribeiro, Michel Tikhomiroff
Production Companies: Mixer, Miravista, Globo filmes, Teleimage

With: Ailton Carmo, Jessica Barbosa, Anderson Santos de Jesus, Irandhir Santos

'Tikhomiroff's direction is muscular and efficient, but takes time out for some very poetic moments set in the magical world of nature.' - Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter

Besouro is the story of a man turned legend - the greatest Capoeira fighter of all time. This epic martial arts film blends the story of post-slavery Brazil in the 1920s, with Afro-Brazilian mythology and muscular Capoeira fight scenes choreographed by Master Huen Chiu Ku (Matrix and Kill Bill).

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