Rodrigo Santoro (Tonho)Behind the Sun is Rodrigo Santoro's second feature film. For Bicho de Sete Cabeças, by Laís Bodanzki, his film debut (winner of the Youth Prize at the Locarno Film Festival 2001), Rodrigo Santoro was chosen Best Actor at the Recife and Brasilia Film Festivals. (2000). His performance as a young student locked up in a mental hospital by his own father was praised by Brazilian critics, who named him as one of the country's promising talents. Before working in film, Rodrigo Santoro worked in television and in the theater.Rodrigo Santoro
麗塔·阿斯麥尼
Rita Assemany (Mother)Rita Assemany
Rita Assemany began working in the theater as an adolescent, in 1980. Soon she became one of the most respected actresses in Bahia, appearing in productions of All Nudity Shall Be Punished, The Balcony, The Decameron, and Cabaré Brazil, among other plays. In 1992 she starred in the monologue Oficina Condensada, which became a great success with the public and ran for more than one year. In 1997, she was directed by Hans Ulrich Becker in a production of Medea. In film, Rita Assemany appeared in Central Station, by Walter Salles, and is the only actress who plays in all three episodes of the feature Três Histórias da Bahia. For the short film Pixaim, she won awards as Best Actress at the Curitiba and Brasilia Film Festivals.
路易斯·卡洛斯·瓦斯索洛斯
Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos (Salustiano)From Umbuzeiro in Paraíba, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos has been transforming himself into the clown Xuxu for 23 years, a character that is the result of his passion for the circus and one of the reasons that led Walter Salles to invite him to play the circus performer Salustiano in Behind the Sun. His talent as a theater director in Paraíba became nationally known at the beginning of the 1990s, when his production of Vau da Sarapalha, an adaptation of a short by Guimarães Rosa, traveled throughout Brazil winning over critics and the public. Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos debuted as a film actor playing the bandit Lampião in Perfumed Ball, by Lírio Ferreira and Paulo Caldas (1997). In 1999 he played one of the principal roles in Midnight/The First Day by Daniela Thomas and Walter Salles, for which he was chosen Best Actor by the São Paulo Art Critics Association. Another standout role in film came in Me You Them, by Andrucha Waddington, selected to be shown at Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
José Dumont (Father)
Born in Paraíba in 1950, José Dumont began acting in theater at the beginning of the 1970s. After appearing in films such as Lucio Flavio, by Hector Babenco, and Gaijin: Roads to Freedom, by Tizuka Yamasaki, he established himself as one of the most important actors in Brazilian cinema. In 1979, he played a migrant from the northeast in O Homem que Virou Suco, by João Batista de Andrade, a role that won him the prize for Best Actor at the Gramado and Brasilia film festivals. At the Havana Film Festival in 1985, he was chosen Best Actor for three films: O Baiano Fantasma, by Denoy de Oliveira, Avaeté, Seed of Revenge by Zelito Viana, and Tigipió, by Pedro Jorge de Castro. Other standout roles in film include Hour of the Star, by Suzana Amaral, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, by Hector Babenco, and Kenoma, by Eliane Caffé.José Dumont
Ravi Ramos Lacerda (Pacu)
Behind the Sun is Ravi Ramos Lacerda's first feature film. He was chosen from among the hundreds of children who were screentested. Ravi began appearing as an actor in public theater festivals in João Pessoa, in Paraíba, where he was born. He received acclaim for a show in which he played a beggar boy who imitated Charlie Chaplin. In film, Ravi also appeared in the short movie A Árvore da Miséria, winner of various awards at Brazilian film festivals.Ravi Ramos Lacerda
Flavia Marco Antonio (Clara)
Flavia Marco Antonio was born in São Paulo in 1978, but chose to live in Salvador, Bahia, where she has lived since she was 18. In love with the circus, Flavia enrolled in the Picolino School of Circus Arts of Salvador in 1996, and today remains a member of the school's company. At the beginning of 2001, she performed in a 40-day tour of six cities in France in a show presented by the Picolino School. Flavia also belongs to the group Clowns Forever (Palhaços Para Sempre), dedicated to the study of the art of clowns. The same year she tested for Behind the Sun, she began studies at the Theater School of the Federal University of Bahia. She has already appeared in several shows in Salvador, among them Improvisation Nights, which had a successful run at the Castro Alves Theater.Flavia Marco Antonio
太陽背後
Rodrigo Santoro
Rita Assemany
Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
José Dumont
Ravi Ramos Lacerda
Flavia Marco Antonio
