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MOTORRAD

By Vicente AMORIM

FILMLAND INTERNACIONAL - as PROD

Completed 2017

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2017

Contemporary World Cinema

- Year of production
- 2017
- Countries
- BRAZIL
- Languages
- BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
- Duration
- 92 mn
- Director(s)
- Vicente AMORIM
- Synopsis
- In director Vicente Amorim’s wild and weird allegorical thriller, a gang of young dirt-bikers on a ride across an isolated region of Brazil find themselves being hunted by a machete-wielding band of motorcyclists intent on killing them all.
  
  Original and daring, Motorrad, Vicente Amorim's seventh feature, tells a unique and bold story with a thriller twist. Hugo (Guilherme Prates) is determined to fit in with his older brother's dirt-bike gang. Sneaking into a junkyard to find a much-needed motorcycle part, Hugo is apprehended by a mysterious and beautiful woman. He catches up with his brother's posse on a joyride in an isolated region of Brazil but their adventure is cut short by an ancient wall blocking their path.
  
  Rather than let the wall stop them, they open a passage and ride on through, running into the woman from the junkyard. The group readily agrees to follow her on a remote trail. But things take an ominous turn when they inexplicably cannot find the trail back, and discover they are being hunted by a machete-wielding bike gang intent on killing them all.
  
  If this sounds wild and weird, it's supposed to be: it's a metaphor for the ghosts within us all that we must learn to tame. Creating an atmosphere of suspense throughout, Amorim's Motorrad is a terrifying and fun commentary on both coming of age and group psychology.

MOTORRAD

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