Lúcio Flávio
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The film also entered the Taormina Film Fest, where it won the Best Actor Award. It debuted on the commercial circuit with 100 copies, breaking King Kong ' s 81, on February 27, 1978. [3] [4] As of November 2014, Lucio Flavio was the sixth most-watched Brazilian film with an audience of 5,401,325.
The story of a famous Brazilian bandit in the early 1970s and his fight against a paramilitary organization known as the Death Squad.
Drawn from an account of a real-life bank robber, Lucio Flavio treads the incendiary line between roughhouse genre fiction and critique of the status quo in Brazil. What the film lacks in immediate nuance - binary characters, transactional situations - it makes up for in ballsy truisms and a parallel address to manhood in something that was not a little brave in an entrenched military dictatorship.
- (2.3K)
- Embrafilme, HB Filmes, Unifilme
- Héctor Babenco
Heist Film. Crime. 1960s. Synopsis. Story of Brazilian bank-robber Lúcio Flávio, who fascinated some people in Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s for his bold robberies and spectacular escapes, and also because he was thought to be intelligent and "politically aware". Before dying, he disclosed a network of corruption in Brazilian Police, and ...
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- Brazil
- Lauro Escorel
- Héctor Babenco
Lucio Flavio (1977) Lucio Flavio (1977) Lucio Flavio (1977) Lucio Flavio (1977) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis A deadly bank robber (Reginaldo Farias) terrorizes 1970s Brazil, which also ...
- Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
- Reginaldo Faria
- Hector Babenco
Synopsis. In the 1960s, a vigilante group called Esquadrão da Morte fights crime outside the law. Lúcio Flávio, a notorious bank robber in Rio de Janeiro, tries to change his life in Belo Horizonte but faces a predetermined destiny.
In the 1960s, a vigilante group called Esquadrão da Morte fights crime outside the law. Lúcio Flávio, a notorious bank robber in Rio de Janeiro, tries to change his life in Belo Horizonte but faces a predetermined destiny.
