Theater director asks his actors for a research on human cruelty and misery in Brazil, while trying to raise funds for his next production, a play based on a story by Machado de Assis, "A Causa Secreta" (The Secret Cause). The troupe oblige and go around town witnessing long lines in National Health Services, inhuman conditions in public hospitals and poor people being constantly humiliated. They find people are becoming indifferent to human suffering.
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Rodrigo Santiago
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Esther Góes
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Lígia Cortez
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José Rubens Chachá
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Renato Borghi
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Cláudia Mello
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Elisa Lucinda
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Luiz Ramalho
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Denis Victorazo
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Alexandre Paternost
Sílvio
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Sérgio Bianchi Director · Machado de Assis Story Eduardo Poiano Cinematographer
First release September 14, 1994 · Produced in Brazil
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Brazil
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Original language
Portuguese
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Portuguese
Release dates
Brazil · September 14, 1994
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No release date listed for United States.
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