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O Palhaço

O Palhaço

2011Movie⏱️ 1h 28m
ComedyDrama
7.2
IMDB Rating
6,002 votes

Father and son work as clowns Puro Sangue/Valdemar and Pangare/Benjamin in a circus in the Brazilian countryside. Benjamin decides to follow a different path and meets several people on the way.

Director
Selton Mello
Writers
Selton Mello, Marcelo Vindicato
Stars
Selton Mello, Paulo José, Larissa Manoela
Release Date
October 28, 2011
Language
Portuguese
Country
Brazil
🏆 50
Wins
🎯 11
Nominations
💬 10
Reviews
📋 6.0K
Watchlists
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Selton Mello
Selton Mello
as Benjamim
Paulo José
Paulo José
as Valdemar
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Larissa Manoela
as Guilhermina
👤
Giselle Motta
as Lola
👤
Teuda Bara
as Dona Zaira
👤
Álamo Facó
as João Lorota
👤
Cadu Fávero
as Tony Lo Bianco
Erom Cordeiro
Erom Cordeiro
as Robson Félix
👤
Hossen Minussi
as Chico Lorota
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Maira Chasseroux
as Lara Lane

💰 Box Office

$6,960,601
Worldwide Gross

🎬 Technical Specs

Color
Color
Production
Bananeira Filmes, Globo Filmes, Mondo Cane Filmes

🏷️ Keywords

circusperformancefather son relationshiphumorclown

🎯 Categories

PortugueseComedyDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Don't be fooled
by focv772011-12-07
2/10

"Very bad the film "O PALHAÇO" (The Clown), directed and played by Senton Mello. I pity for the children that I saw many mothers taking to watch this annoying movie, thinking it would supply the lack of a actual circus nowadays in Brazilian big cities. The story tells about a depressed clown,but the cheating advertising from Imagem Filmes hides that. It is a boring movie, depressing, irritating, long-winded, tedious, filled with many unnecessary sequences, as well as with dead times and jokes with no fun at all. The few jokes are about farts and low humorous things like that. I was co..."

💡 Did You Know?

The idea for the film came from an existential crisis that the director and protagonist Selton Mello lived in 2009, when he was dissatisfied as an actor, and gave rise to a plot about the rite of passage.

📖 Synopsis

Father and son work as clowns Puro Sangue/Valdemar and Pangare/Benjamin in a circus in the Brazilian countryside. Benjamin decides to follow a different path and meets several people on the way.