Anticipating future loss, his parents don't give him a name. Tonio's younger brother is addressed only as "the Kid" by the family. Under pressure from his father, Tonio kills one of the Ferreira sons to avenge the murder of his older brother. You have no right to take more blood than was taken from you." Life is suffused with a sense of futility and stoic despair. Embedded in this choreography of death is a particular code of ethics: "Blood has the same volume for everyone. Now they are locked into a series of tit-for-tat assassinations of their sons an eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth. For generations, the two families have quarreled over land. He is next in line to kill and then die in an ongoing blood feud with a neighboring clan, the Ferreiras. Twenty-year-old Tonio is the middle son of an impoverished farm family, the Breves. The year is 1910 the place the badlands of Northeast Brazil. This heartrending film about blood feud and self-sacrifice is set in the badlands of Northeast Brazil during the early 20th century. Its original Portuguese title means Shattered April, and it is based on the novel of that name by Ismail Kadare, about the honor culture in the remote mountains of Albania. Behind the Sun (Portuguese title: Abril Despedaçado) is a Golden Globe-nominated 2001 Brazilian film directed by Walter Salles, produced by Arthur Cohn, starring Rodrigo Santoro.
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