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Anjos do Sol

  • 2006
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
1.2K
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Anjos do Sol (2006)
In 2002, 12-year-old Maria, living in dire poverty with her family, is sold by her fisherman father to prostitute recruiter Seu Tadeu, who takes her to a low-class brothel in the Amazon region. While she suffers innumerable abuses, Maria only thinks of escaping the horrible conditions she's faced with.
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Maria's parents sell her, thinking she'll be a maid for a wealthy family. Instead, traffickers plan to force the 12-year-old into Brazil's brothels, like many impoverished girlsMaria's parents sell her, thinking she'll be a maid for a wealthy family. Instead, traffickers plan to force the 12-year-old into Brazil's brothels, like many impoverished girlsMaria's parents sell her, thinking she'll be a maid for a wealthy family. Instead, traffickers plan to force the 12-year-old into Brazil's brothels, like many impoverished girls

  • Director
    • Rudi Lagemann
  • Writer
    • Rudi Lagemann
  • Stars
    • Antonio Calloni
    • Otávio Augusto
    • Darlene Glória
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    1.2K
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    • Director
      • Rudi Lagemann
    • Writer
      • Rudi Lagemann
    • Stars
      • Antonio Calloni
      • Otávio Augusto
      • Darlene Glória
    • 11User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 22 nominations total

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    Antonio Calloni
    Antonio Calloni
    • Saraiva
    Otávio Augusto
    Otávio Augusto
    • Lourenço
    Darlene Glória
    • Vera
    Vera Holtz
    Vera Holtz
    • Nazaré, the Madam
    Fernanda Carvalho
    • Maria
    Chico Díaz
    Chico Díaz
    • Tadeu
    Bianca Comparato
    Bianca Comparato
    • Inês
    Mary Sheila
    • Celeste
    Caco Monteiro
    • Tonho
    Antônio Gonzalez
    • Joao
    Evelin Buchegguer
    • Maria's mother
    Rui Manthur
    • Maria's father
    Maurício Gonçalves
    • Public Health agent
    Larissa Beckman
    • Prostitute
    Kallanda Caetana
    • Prostitute
    Dayanie Diegues
    • Prostitute
    Paula Lanziani
    • Prostitute
    Gaby Santos Luiz
    • Director
      • Rudi Lagemann
    • Writer
      • Rudi Lagemann
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    10chetosco

    I give 10 stars too

    It's supposed to bring not a milligram of pleasure, be it directing or, especially, acting. Who cares? That's not a piece of art. That's a desperate yell that fades into a hopeless howling. This movie alone is enough not to want to wake up next morning. Watching can easily lead to a heart attack. I nearly had one. But filmed impeccably by a guy with a very big heart. Great photography, great sertaneja score intended to contrast, great cast including Otavio Augusto, Chico Diaz, Vera Holtz and Antonio Calloni among others. Virtually a documentary with a very slight acting, which may be just a bit too much. But the most shocking is that the movie leaves you breathlessly ashamed for being part of this world.
    10heckdave

    The most moving film that I have ever seen.

    I'm not much of an expert on acting or other movie details, but this movie just hit me deep. I don't think I'll ever forget it. One scene especially (I think that anybody who has seen the film will know of which one I am speaking) is imprinted on my brain.

    I also watched the similar movie Lilja 4-ever (as referred to by a previous commentator). It was also very moving, but not quite as straight to the point and brutal. If you are sensitive at all, either will bring tears to your eyes, but Anjos Do Sol (Angels of the Sun) may stay with you forever.

    This is very depressing subject matter, but I think, no, I HOPE that the film succeeds in bringing more attention to it.

    More people need to see this film!!!!!!
    ersbel

    A necessary film, badly made

    The whole cast is a long series of cardboard silhouettes marching around in a silly dance. A TV report about child prostitution has about the same emotional and artistic value for only a fraction of the price. So why do it? Because the they can. Anyway, everything is cleaned up to sterility. The miners are poor. They have unfashionable clothing. Yet the clothes are clean and new. The brothel is hospital clean and there are no sanitation issues. There is no blood, no vomit, even the chain is new and shinny.

    Why do they do it? Any of the characters moving around? Who cares? The team has a movie to shoot and big dreams. In the end, the screen announces this is made from true stories. Really? If that's so why is there only one story? And if that is one story, where is the evolution, the reason to feel something for the girl? In the end, after 90 minutes, the girl is just another piece of meat. Does she change? Does she have dreams? Long into the movie she starts speaking. She is trying to become human: she talks about pain. But she is cut short by the director's need to keep up filming.

    I should have felt sorry for the girl. Yet the only conclusion rests: she was better off dead. And this movie unmade.

    Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch
    7videorama-759-859391

    No sun in this sickening trade

    More the norm are child prostitute movies, and I like ones that shock and hit hard with the message. This is one of those films, an indie one with shades of amateurish as if for budget, whatever. It's seems like the producers, filmmakers, whatever, were really pushing hard to get it made. The subtitles look cheap. This is an impressive work I must say, where again the scum who sell kids are merciless. A 12 year girl, unbeknown to her will become a child prostitute as her slightly older scouted sister has caught malaria. What begins for this poor girl is a merciless hell as she becomes a commodity for sex from perverted older men, who buy them like objects, one girl described by a madam as "a delicate flower" or words to that effect is nine if a day, where the girls are doled up in gaudy dresses, eye candy for these perverted sons of bitches. One guy buys two girl's, including the 12 year old main of our story, who gives her to his 18 year old son as a birthday present, to lose his virginity. There are some ugly bits of this movie, where one girl pays the ultimate price for running away, which is truly is a disturbing scene. The film is well acted by the young cast, and there are a couple of hotties, but the film never detracts from the reality and truth about what goes on in this girl's hell, or in the lives of the other girls in this sickening trade, where the punches keep coming back at ya. Finally she has to escape, where again it's a revolving door. The last scene, especially is a reminder of that very fact, for the what the price of a child's beauty, holds. It's something as if a scene out of Matrioshki, where yes, the film is stereotypical, but they are all with their small familiarities, if plot points, whatever. But with this one, I like it's unflinching pull no punches, ugly side of the trade. An stern quality about the film, I admired.
    8polednick-02290

    A look into the harsh reality

    Sold by her father, Maria is bought as a gift to deflower a son. Afterwards, her new owner sends her to his brothel in the Brazilian jungle.

    The film impressively shows how women and girls are viewed as commodities in a male-dominated world. It doesn't shy away from showing us this harsh world in small bites.

    Even if, of course, these only glimpses of the true harshness.

    The main actress and the brothel owner deserve special credit here, for they play their roles very convincingly.

    It's also good that Maria's subsequent fate isn't presented through rose-colored glasses. Because in this world where nothing is free, she can only pay with her body.

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    • Release date
      • August 18, 2006 (Brazil)
    • Country of origin
      • Brazil
    • Official site
      • Official site (Brazil)
    • Language
      • Portuguese
    • Also known as
      • Angels of the Sun
    • Filming locations
      • Amazon Rainforest, Amazonas, Brazil
    • Production companies
      • Apema Filmes
      • Caradecão Filmes
      • Globo Filmes
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      • R$1,500,000 (estimated)
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      • 1h 32m(92 min)
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