The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
07-26-1985
2h 0m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Héctor Babenco
Production:
HB Filmes
Revenue:
$17,000,000
Budget:
$1,250,000
Key Crew
Screenplay:
Leonard Schrader
Executive Producer:
Francisco Ramalho Jr.
Producer:
David Weisman
Additional Editing:
Lee Percy
Supervising Sound Editor:
Susan Dudeck
Locations and Languages
Country:
US; BR
Filming:
BR; US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
William Hurt
William Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American stage, film and television actor, trained at the Juilliard School, Manhattan, New York, USA. For his leading role in the feature film "Kiss of the Spider Woman", he received an Academy Award in 1986, followed by 3 more nominations for roles in the movies "Children of a Lesser God", "Broadcast News", and "A History of Violence".
Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor. His film career peaked in the US in the early 1990s.
Born in San Juan, he gained interest in acting while still in school. Upon completing his studies, Juliá decided to pursue a career in acting. After performing in the local scene for some time, he was convinced by entertainment personality Orson Bean to move and work in New York City. Juliá, who had been bilingual since his childhood, soon gained interest in Broadway and "Off Broadway" plays. He performed in mobile projects, including the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre.
Juliá was eventually noticed by Joseph Papp, who offered him work in the New York Shakespeare Festival. After gaining notoriety, he received roles in two television series, Love of Life and Sesame Street. For his performance in Two Gentlemen of Verona, he received a nomination for the Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award. Between 1974 and 1982, Juliá received Tony Award nominations for Where's Charley?, The Threepenny Opera and Nine. During the 1980s, he worked in several films, receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Awards, for his performance in Tempest, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for the latter.
In 1991 and 1993, Juliá portrayed "Gomez Addams" in two film adaptations of The Addams Family. In 1994, he filmed The Burning Season and a film adaptation of the Street Fighter video games. Later that year, Juliá suffered several health afflictions, eventually dying after suffering a stroke. His funeral was held in Puerto Rico, being attended by thousands. For his work in The Burning Season, Juliá won a posthumous Golden Globe and Emmy Award.
Sônia Maria Campos Braga (born June 8, 1950) is a Brazilian actress. She's known for her Golden Globe Award–nominated performances in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Moon over Parador (1988). She received a BAFTA Award nomination in 1981 for Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (first released in 1976). She was nominated for an Emmy Award and a third Golden Globe Award for her role in for the 1994 television film The Burning Season. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #24 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
José Lewgoy was a Brazilian actor (Veranópolis, November 16, 1920 - Rio de Janeiro, February 10, 2003). Since 1940, he acted in more than one hundred films, including Fitzcarraldo with German actor Klaus Kinski and studied at Yale University. In 1973, he participated in the film by Colombian director Carlos Mayolo, La mansión de Araucaíma, in the role of Graciliano "Don Graci". The film is based on a story of the same name by writer Álvaro Mutis, winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2001.
Milton Gonçalves (December 9, 1933 – May 30, 2022) was a Brazilian actor. He's one of the most famous black actors in Brazil, having collaborated twice with acclaimed director Hector Babenco.
Gonçalves started his career in São Paulo, in an amateur group. As he moved to a professional group, he met Augusto Boal, who was looking for an actor to play an old black man. Joining Boal's Teatro de Arena, Milton Gonçalves found an open environment for political, philosophical and artistic discussion, where he was not discriminated for his race.
Gonçalves wrote four plays, one of which was staged by the Teatro Experimental do Negro and directed by Dalmo Ferreira. "There I learnt everything I know about Theater. It was fundamental for my comprehension of the world."
A Black Movement activist, Milton Gonçalves tried a political career, in the 1990s, as a candidate to Rio de Janeiro state governorship.
Father of actor Maurício Gonçalves, he is married to Oda Gonçalves since 1966.
Nuno Leal Maia (Santos, October 17, 1947) is a Brazilian actor and football coach. Graduated in performing arts at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo, his first work was in 1973, participating in the two feature films Anjo Loiro and A Virgem; however, it was in the film Act of Violence, in which he played a prisoner who dismembered women, which earned him the Air France Award for Best Actor. On the other hand, his television debut began in 1976, playing Acioli in the soap opera Estúpido Cupido; but his consecration only came in 1984, as Bertazzo in Vereda Tropical, being elected Best Actor by the APCA Trophy.
Fernando Monteiro Torres (Guaçuí, November 14, 1927 – Rio de Janeiro, September 4, 2008) was a Brazilian actor, director and producer of theater, film and television. Torres was married since 1952 to actress Fernanda Montenegro, with whom he had two children: filmmaker Cláudio Torres and actress Fernanda Torres.
Wilson Grey (born Wilson Chaves, December 10, 1923 - October 3, 1993) was a Brazilian actor known to play minor characters in several films. With a career that spanned for over 40 years, he was a constant figure in many productions through various phases of Brazilian cinema, from the popular musical comedies known as "chanchadas" in the 1950s to the Cinema Novo movement. Grey is known for his work on "O Segredo da Múmia" (1982), "A Dança dos Bonecos" (1986) and "As Sete Vampiras" (1986). "O Segredo da Múmia" was one of the few feature films where he played the main character in his entire career.
A rarity among Brazilian actors, Grey hardly ever appeared on a TV series or soap-operas. His career consisted mostly of films (more than 100).
Linneu Moreira Dias (Sant'Ana do Livramento, October 5, 1927 — Rio de Janeiro, August 3, 2002) was a Brazilian actor, short story writer, poet, playwright and translator. He was married to actress Lilian Lemmertz and is the father of actress Julia Lemmertz.
