Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Brazil
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- In Portuguese — subtitles on.
The story
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
- ambassador
- kidnapping
- freedom
- revolutionary
- true crime
- military dictatorship
- brazilian military dictatorship
The bill
Alan Arkin
Charles Burke Elbrick
Pedro Cardoso
Fernando Gabeira / Paulo
Fernanda Torres
Andréia / Maria
Luiz Fernando Guimarães
Marcão
- Cláudia Abreu — Clara / Reneé
- Nelson Dantas — Toledo
- Matheus Nachtergaele — Severino Barroso / Jonas
- Marco Ricca — Henrique
- Maurício Gonçalves — Brandão
- Caio Junqueira — Cid Benjamin / Júlio
- Selton Mello — César / Oswaldo
- Eduardo Moscovis — Artur
- Waldir Onofre
- Samir Murad
- Charles Myara
- Directed
- Bruno Barreto
- Written
- Fernando Gabeira, Leopoldo Serran
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 141 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia TriStar, Petrobras
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