Brave New Land

Brave New Land (2000)

Brava Gente Brasileira

Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. When he reaches the center of the continent, finds apparently nothing but wilderness and ‘uncivilized’ natives with strange ways of living. But Captain Pedro, the rude scout who guides him through the jungle, involves Diogo in an involuntary act of violence which will tie him in an unusual way to that far away country. At the same time, the Portuguese colonists are trying to make peace with Guaicuru Indians (one of the few natives with horse-riding abilities). But peace doesn’t ever have a low price.

Date of release
2000-09-07
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
History, War, Drama
Director
Lúcia Murat

Casting

Interesting facts

Brave New Land is a 2000 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Lúcia Murat. The title comes from a line from the chorus refrain written by journalist Evaristo da Veiga for the Brazilian Independence Anthem. It depicts the conflicted relationship between Portuguese, Spanish and Indigenous in the 18th century.

Production

In the late 1980s, Murat knew the history about the conflict between Indigenous people and military in the New Coimbra Fort, a fort of the Western Military Command in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul. 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 in 1999.

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