Bog of Beasts

Somewhere in rural Brazil, in a poor village in the middle of the sugar plantations, a young girl lives with her grandfather. Devoid of any affection and warmth, she spends her days as a house slave. The evenings are no better. Her brutal grandfather shows her off naked behind the filling station to local and passing machos, who gratify themselves while looking at her body. The only interest she gets, albeit dubious, comes from the young man who is digging a cesspit beside her grandfather’s house...

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Script: Claudio Assis

Cinematography: Walter Carvalho

Editing: Karen Harley

Sound: Louis Robin

Music: Pupillo

Actors: Mariah Teixeira (Auxiliadora), Fernando Teixeira (Heitor), Caio Blat (Cicero), Matheus Nachtergaele (Everardo), Dira Paes (Bela), Irandhir Santos (Maninho)

Production: Parabolica Brasil

Producers: Julia Morales, Claudio Assis

Art Direction: Renata Pinheiro

Costumes: Joana Gatis

Format: 35mm, Color

Production Country: Brazil

Production Year: 2006

Duration: 82

Clάudio Assis

He was born in Caruaru, Brazil. He began his work as an actor in a theater group and then he became involved in the cine-club movement, participating in the setting up of cine-clubs in numerous university departments together with local community organizations. In 1993 he produced his second short film, Soneto do Desmantelo Blue, about the Brazilian poet Carlos Penna Filho. Alongside his work as a director, he took on the production of a series of short films and documentaries from a new generation of Brazilian directors.With his first feature film, Yellow Mango, he got the public and critics on his side and won awards like the C.I.A.E. at Berlin FF and the Coup de Coeur at the Toulouse FF. Yellow Mango also screened at the 47th Thessaloniki IFF in 2006.