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"The Pastor and the Revolutionary" is a Brazilian feature film set in the 1960s - after the beginning of the dictatorship in Brazil - and 1970s and in the last days of 1999, at the turn of the millennium.
In 1968, the young communist João leaves university and joins a guerrilla movement in the Amazon. He is arrested, tortured and sent to prison in Brasília, where he meets Zaqueu, an evangelical Christian who was wrongly arrested. They suffer together, overcome ideological differences, help each other and arrange to meet 27 years later, at midnight, at the turn of the millennium, on top of the Brasília TV Tower.
In 1999, an old army colonel commits suicide and leaves part of his inheritance to Juliana, the illegitimate daughter of his relationship with the house's former maid. Through a book found in the house, she discovers that her late father was the torturer of the two young men in the past and that the scheduled meeting between the two will not take place.
Zacchaeus, already old and marked by the past, lives in conflict with his son, who wants to set up a new church with more commercial than Christian aims. Fate has placed Juliana in the story and the arranged meeting will have a different outcome than what was agreed.
The film is produced by Nilson Rodrigues (Mercado Filmes) and directed by award-winning José Eduardo Belmonte.
Filming has already begun and will be taking place in the unique landscapes of Tocantins (which combine the biomes of the Cerrado and the Amazon Rainforest) and the city of Brasília.
The cast includes the new generation of national cinema (Johnny Massaro, Júlia Dalavia, César Mello, Ana Hartmann, William Costa) and renowned actors and actresses from the screen and theater (Cássia Kis, Antônio Grassi, Sérgio Mamberti, Buda Lira, Ricardo Gelli).
In its team, "The Pastor and the Guerrilheiro" also has executive production by Caetano Curi, photography direction by Bárbara Alvarez, art direction by Ana Paula Cardoso, production direction by Larissa Rolin, music by Sascha Kratzer and costume design by Diana Brandão.
The script was written by José Rezende, Nilson Rodrigues and José Eduardo Belmonte. The final script was written by Josefina Trotta.
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