O Circo das Qualidades Humanas

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O Circo das Qualidades Humanas
Poster of Circo das Qualidades Humanas.jpg
Directed byMilton Alencar
Paulo Augusto Gomes
Geraldo Veloso
Jorge Moreno
Written byCunha de Leiradella
Produced byJorge Moreno
Starring Daniel de Oliveira
Eduardo Largo
Thaís Garayp
Francisco Milani
Jonas Bloch
Paula Burlamaqui
Stênio Garcia
CinematographyPhilipe Gerling
Edited byMaria Muricy
Music byVander Lima
Production
company
Fam Cine
Release dates
  • January 21, 2000 (2000-01-21)(Tiradentes) [1]
  • August 13, 2004 (2004-08-13)(theatrical release) [2]
Running time
93 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese
BudgetR$1,6 million [3]

O Circo das Qualidades Humanas is a 2000 Brazilian drama film directed by Milton Alencar, Paulo Augusto Gomes, Geraldo Veloso, and Jorge Moreno. It was shot in December 1998 in Congonhas, Minas Gerais, and debuted at the 3rd Festival de Cinema de Tiradentes in 2000. [1]

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Plot

On a Sunday morning, Ulysses, Maria Germana, Eduardo and the cronies Carioca and Preto arrive in Congonhas, Minas Gerais. Each of them has a different reason to come to the town: some personal, others professional. Ulysses was born there. Living an identity crisis, he decides to return to his hometown in a quest to find himself. Maria Germana is a shooting model that comes to Congonhas because of a photographic session. She gets interested in Ulysses after seeing him in a bar. Eduardo is an engineer whom also came because of professional reasons. He ends up falling in love with a mysterious woman named Helena, whom he met in the streets of the city. Carioca and Preto came to search for Chicão, with who they plan to have a reckoning. Besides them, there is Bosco, a young man that has returned home recently after a period recovering from substances dependency. He struggles with family problems, such as the sexual harassment from his sister, and the despise from his father.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Cunha de Leiradella: O Circo das Qualidades Humanas" (in Portuguese). Triplov. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Segundo semestre terá pelo menos mais 20 filmes brasileiros" (PDF). Filme B (in Portuguese). July 19, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Circo das Qualidades Humanas, O" (in Portuguese). Terra Networks . Retrieved May 28, 2014.
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