''Brave New Land'' ( pt, Brava Gente Brasileira) is a 2000 Brazilian

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written and directed by

Lúcia Murat Lúcia Murat (born 1949 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian filmmaker. Murat participated in the student and guerrilla movements against the Brazilian military government, military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1960–1970s. She was imprisoned and ...

. The title comes from a line from the chorus refrain written by journalist

Evaristo da Veiga Evaristo Ferreira da Veiga e Barros (October 8, 1799 – May 12, 1837) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, politician and bookseller. Veiga founded one of the first Brazilian newspapers, ''A Aurora Fluminense'', in 1827, during the reign of Empero ...

for the

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. It depicts the conflicted relationship between Portuguese, Spanish and Indigenous in the 18th century.

Cast

Diogo Infante Diogo Nuno Infante de Lacerda (born 28 May 1967 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese theatre, cinema and television actor and television presenter. He is the natural son of Maria Infante de Lacerda by an Englishman named Jonathan and maternal grandson of Re ...

as Diogo de Castro e Albuquerque *

Floriano Peixoto Floriano Vieira Peixoto ( 30 April 1839 – 29 June 1895), born in Ipioca (today a district of the city of Maceió in the State of Alagoas), nicknamed the "Iron Marshal", was a Brazilian soldier and politician, a veteran of the Paraguay ...

as Captain Pedro * Luciana Rigueira as Ánote *

Leonardo Villar Leonardo Villar (25 July 1923 – 3 July 2020) was a Brazilian actor. He became internationally known for his performance as Zé do Burro in Anselmo Duarte's ''O Pagador de Promessas'', the only Brazilian film so far awarded a Palme d'Or at the ...

as Commander * Buza Ferraz as Antônio * Murilo Grossi as Alfonso * Sérgio Mamberti as priest

Production

In the late 1980s, Murat knew the history about the conflict between Indigenous people and military in the Forte Coimbra, a fort of the Western Military Command in the

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. And, in 1997, when a producer asked her about the planning of any film she remembered the story. She first visited the Kadiweu people in April 1997, and the shooting took place in seven weeks in a set in

Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul Bonito is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. As of 2020 its population was 22,190, and it has an area of . History The area that would become the center of the Municipality of Bonito started with the land of th ...

in 1999.

Reception

It was first screened at the 2000

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and ''

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'' reported it received praise from critics. However, Derek Elley from ''

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'' criticized it for its clichés, calling it "solidly conventional behind its verismo front". Elley said "Budgetary constraints hamper what little drama is happening onscreen, and only actor to make much of an impression is Leonardo Villar as the fort's gnarled, pragmatic commander." In spite of it, the film won Best Actress Award (Rigueira) and Best Score Award at the

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References

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*{{IMDb title, id=0263156, title=Brave New Land 2000 drama films 2000 films Brazilian drama films Films directed by Lúcia Murat Films set in Brazil Films set in the 18th century Indigenous cinema in Latin America 2000s Portuguese-language films