THE PASTOR AND THE REVOLUTIONARY

O PASTOR E O GUERRILHEIRO

By José Eduardo BELMONTE

MERCADO FILMES - as PROD

True Story - Completed 2022

In the last days of 1999, Juliana, the illegitimate daughter of a colonel who had just committed suicide, discovers that her father was a torturer during the military dictatorship.

Festivals
& Awards

Gramado 2022
Competitive
Festival de Brasília 2022
Mostra Brasília - Melhor Filme e Melhor Edição
Festival Latino Americano de Trieste 2022
Competitive
Festival Latino de Nova York 2022
Competitive
Comunicurtas 2022
Melhor Filme e Melhor Som
Festival Internacional Pan Africano 2023
Competitive
27th Inffinito Brazilian Film Festival 2023
Best Film by the Jury / Best Actor – Johnny Massaro / Best Screenplay – Josefina Trotta
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • True Story, Book adaptation, Drama
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • PORTUGUESE
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 116 mn
    • Director(s)
    • José Eduardo BELMONTE
    • Writer(s)
    • Josefina TROTTA
    • Producer(s)
    • Nilson RODRIGUES (Mercado Filmes)
    • Synopsis
    • In late 1999, an Army Colonel commits suicide and leaves an inheritance to Juliana, a student activist, daughter to a maid at his house in the 1970s. With a sick grandmother, she has to decide whether she accepts an inheritance of a father who never acknowledged her. Among documents at her father’s house, Juliana finds the book “Memoirs of a guerrilla”. Reading it, she learns the story of Miguel, a student and former communist guerrilla, and Zaqueu, an evangelic Christian mistakenly arrested by the Brazilian dictatorship. In prison, both promise to survive and set a meeting for the turn of the century. In the midst of a whirl of emotions, connections and discoveries revealed by the book, compassed by symbolism, Juliana has to decide the role she will play in a story begun 26 years ago.