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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1980 - 26 July.3 August

Sections & Films

VAI À LUTA

Category: Edition 1980

Synopsis
Besouro is the best fighter living in a poor region of Salvador north-east of Amarilina. He has three friends: Martelo, an old childhood friend, Aureo and Joao. Martelo has a kiosk at the Fiera di Bonfim, he is the first to receive the news that the fair will no longer take place. As this fair is an important event for the Capoeira wrestler this bad news provokes a kind of waiting atmosphere that leads him to discover, together with his friends, a conspiracy of a group of terrorists, to prevent any meetings of people at the Fair. Of course, in the end, as happens in the films of honest adventures, the heroes win and the wicked are defeated, somehow defeated ...

Original Title VAI À LUTA
Category Official Competition
Festival Awards Special Prize (1980)
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 70'
Production Year 1980
Nationality Brazil
Directed by Tato Taborda

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