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O Shaolin do Serto
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'O Shaolin do Serto' is 2016 Brazilian comedy film, directed by Halder Gomes and starring Edmilson Filho, Fbio Goulart and Bruna Ham. The film won the Grande Prmio do Cinema Brasileiro for Best Comedy Feature Film.
Plot
The movie takes place in 1982. Professional vale-tudo fighters were struggling because of the lack of matches. So they decide to travel through several regions of Brazil to fight with altered and violent people from small countryside towns. And one of these, known as Toni Tora Pleura (Fbio Goulart), travels through the countryside of Cear and in one of his winning fights, announces that he will arrive in the city of Quixad, where the protagonist of the film lives, Alusio Liduno (Edmilson Filho), who likes to be called Alusio Li.
Alusio is fascinated by Chinese culture and especially by Kung fu films. Because of this, he behaves and dresses like a Shaolin, which makes him a laughing stock in his city. He works at Seu Z's (Ded Santana) bakery and is in love with his daughter, Ansia Shirley (Bruna Ham) - even though she is engaged to Armandinho (Marcos Veras).
The candidate for mayor of Quixad, Rossivaldo (Frank Menezes), using Toni Tora Pleura's challenge to win votes from the population and win the local election, summons opponents to face him. With the lack of volunteers, Alusio Li appears, indicated by his friend Piolho (Igor Jansen) and he offers himself for the fight. Rossivaldo then gives Alusio money to prepare for combat.
Piolho's cousin, Jesus (Haroldo Guimares), informs Alusio that in Quixeramobim, a city neighboring Quixad, there is an alleged Kung fu master named Wilson (Falco) and says he can train him for fighting. In this they both go to him and Alusio asks to be trained in the Chinese martial art. Wilson refuses, but when Alusio shows him the money, he changes his mind. Right after the training, Alusio receives his Shaolin graduation from his master and at night he goes together with Piolho to a bar in the city and gets involved in a fight with some MMA fighters and winning. Alusio then pays Master Wilson and returns to Quixad. The victory in the fight at the Quixeramobim bar soon reaches the ears of the Quixada population and Alusio is received as a celebrity by candidate Rossivaldo and his boss Seu Z. That same night, Alusio is woken up to solve a street fight and when he gets there, he is approached by Armandinho - jealous of the approach of Ansia and Alusio - and the fighters he defeated in Quixeramobim's bar. The Shaolin gets punched and falls unconscious.
Piolho reveals to Alusio that Master Wilson is a fake and that the fight in the bar was staged by him and the leader of the fighters - his relative - so that the Shaolin of the Serto would win and then pay him the training money. He falls out of favor in Quixad, being despised by everyone and indulging in drink. In a moment when he mixes fury and drunkenness, he destroys the Chinese artifacts in his room and finds a VCR tape containing a movie called '"A Voadora do Drago"' and decides to watch it. However, as he was poor and didn't have a reproductive device in his house, he ended up remembering that he had one at Rossivaldo's house, when he was invited to a dinner party. He breaks into his house, takes the device but is discovered and arrested.
The day of the fight arrived and Quixad had no fighter, due to Alusio Li's arrest. Rossivaldo, fearing the cancellation of the fight and later his defeat in the elections, asks that Alusio be released from the police station. In a long and difficult fight, Alusio defeats Toni Tora Pleura and with the award received, he founded the 'Academia de Luta Irmos Gmeos de Parte de Pai' (or Father's Part Twin Brothers Fight Academy) in Quixad.
Cast
* Edmilson Filho as Aluisio Li
* Bruna Ham as Ansia Shirley
* Ded Santana as Seu Z
* Marcos Veras as Armandinho
* Igor Jansen as Piolho
* Fbio Goulart as Toni Tora Pleura
* Fafy Siqueira as Dona Zefa
* Falco as Chins
* Frank Menezes as Rossivaldo
* Cludio Jaborandy as Regislndio Lcio
* Haroldo Guimares as Jesus
* Solange Teixeira as Margot
* Evenice Neta as Lorraine
* Lus Guilherme as Organizador do evento
* Karla Karenina as Marciclene
* Tirulipa as Juiz
* Li Lin - Daniel as Mestre Chins
* Demick Lopes as Tcnico de Toni Tora Pleura
* Eduardo Cintra as Luizo
* Yasmim Sant'Anna as Dona Zefa (Jovem)
* Yuri Yamamoto as Li Chai Chang
* Brulio Bessa as Informante
* Lailtinho as Chico Esponja
* Camila Uckers as Barraqueira
* Edmir Kawakubo as Chefo Chins
* Joo Incio Jr. as Reprter de TV
* Kyra Gomes as Arengueira
* Andr Campos as Bichinha
* Fernanda Callou as Apresentadora de TV
* Bolachinha as Macaca Monga
* Diego Jovino as Arengueiro
* Reginauro Souza as Besouro do Co
* Glayco Salles as Mdico
* LC Galetto as Padre
* Adriano Ucha as Assistente do Regislndio
* Dennys Lacerda as Euclides Claude
References
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