BirdWatchers | |
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Directed by | Marco Bechis |
Produced by | Amedeo Pagani Marco Bechis Fabiano Gullane Caio Gullane |
Written by | Marco Bechis Luiz Bolognesi |
Starring |
Claudio Santamaria Alicélia Batista Cabreira Chiara Caselli |
Music by | Andrea Guerra |
Cinematography | Hélico Alemão Nagamine |
Edited by | Jacopo Quadri |
Production
company |
Classic
Rai Cinema Karta Film Gullane Filmes |
Distributed by | 01 Distribution (Italy) Paris Filmes (Brazil) |
Release date
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Running time
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104 minutes |
Country | Italy Brazil |
Language | Portuguese Guarani English |
Budget | €3 million |
Box office | $7,263 |
BirdWatchers (Italian: La terra degli uomini rossi) is a 2008 Brazilian-Italian drama film directed by Marco Bechis. It depicts the breakdown of a community of Guarani-Kaiowa native Indians whilst attempting to reclaim their ancestral land from a local farmer.
The film was shot in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul over ten weeks in 2007 with a cast whose most members had never acted before and without use of a script.
The songs "Sacris solemnis" and "O gloriosa virginum" were composed by the Italian Jesuit Domenico Zipoli who went to South America to live at the Jesuit Reductions.