A Grande Arte (1991)

Directors

Walter Salles

Cast

Amanda Pays, Paulo José, Peter Coyote, Raul Cortez, Tchéky Karyo

The story

Peter Mandrake, an American photographer in Brazil, is preparing an in loco essay for his new book, about the "train surfers" (groups of boys who court danger "surfing" on the roof of the trains) in the city of Rio de Janeiro. A local call girl with whom he is friends is murdered, and when the police can make no progress Mandrake decides to investigate himself. Subsequently, two hired thugs break into his apartment demanding a disk, and, when he doesn't produce it because he can't do so, they rape his girlfriend and stab him, leaving him to die.

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