• Director: José Henrique Fonseca
• Writer: José Henrique Fonseca, Felipe Bragança, Fernando Castets
• Cast: Rodrigo Santoro, Alinne Moraes, Angie Cepeda
• Language: Portuguese
• Theatrical Release Date: March 30, 2012
• Distributor: Screen Media
• On The Web IMDB Entry

Synopsis: Rio in the forties was an oasis in a world fraught by war. Its star was Heleno de Freitas, (a stand-out performance by Rodrigo Santoro), a footballer, whose violent temper both on and off the pitch led to his decline in the late fifties. Shot in luminous black and white, José Henrique Fonseca’s latest feature film evokes Heleno’s glory days when he was king of Rio’s night and day, to his lonely end in a sanatorium due to untreated syphilis. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]