Cafund%C3%B3 (film)
Cafund is 2005 Brazilian historical drama film written and directed by Paulo Betti and Clvis Bueno and starring Lzaro Ramos.
So Paulo state, 1890s. Joo Lzaro Ramos is a former slave and the son of an Orisha priestess and works as a muleherd for a coronel. One day, he and his close friend Cirino Leandro Firmino da Hora decide to leave the farm. Joo takes his mother to Cafund, the bastion of AfroAmerican religion in the vicinity. However, Joo leaves the community and takes errands to work in menial jobs. He meets a possessed white prostitute named Rosrio Leona Cavalli and falls in love. Only after an unhappy marriage with Rosrio and his mothers demise, Joo has a series of visions and decides to work as a spiritual leader for Sorocaba. In 1906, he builds a church with help from Cirino and begins to preach his syncretic faith, which is a blend of Orisha worship, veneration of Catholic saints, and eventually Kardecist spiritism.To reconstruct the atmosphere of the 19th century, the natural scenery of Ponta Grossa and historic buildings of Lapa, Paranagu and Antonina were chosen as filming locations. ........
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