"People are tired." "Don 't want to be deceived any longer" "People are tired." "Don 't want to be deceived any longer" "People are tired." "Don 't want to be deceived any longer" "Bourgeois mayor your time has come mayor thief straight to jail... one two three four" "We don 't want this mayor in Brazil any more." "We don 't want this mayor in Brazil any more." "We don 't want this mayor in Brazil any more." "We don 't want this mayor in Brazil any more." "Sir, Sir." "What?" "How can I help you?" "Nothing, I came to see the mayor" "Your name please?" "Zeca" "Zeca what?" "Zeca Devil" "And what is your real name?" "No Sir, my real name I won't say." "Why not?" "So my enemies won't know my family and won't take revenge." "Do you have many enemies?" "A few." "Most of them died." "Well." "so it will be better if you come back some other time... the mayor is very busy." "It won't take very long." "Tell me at least what's about" "My poor brother, of only fourteen." "took a beating because he stole a horse." "Do you want to press charges?" "A complaint is not enough." "My brother died from the beating" "You are asking forjustice!" "Asking is not going to work." "So justice, I'll do it myself." "And what do you want the mayor to do?" "He already did: had my brother beaten." "Now he doesn't have to do anything." "He just has to die when I kill him." "Mr. Mayor Sir... pull out your gun and shoot me." "as my Patron Father Ciço is the witness that I never killed no one... that didn't want to kill me first." "Didn't I tell that it was going to fast?" "In August 25th of 1961 Colonel Lidério Gouveia..." "Sucupira's Mayor was murdered." "The news made front page on the newspaper where I work... but in the rest of country very few people heard of it." "On the same day Jânio Quadros renounced the presidency of Brazil." "Nobody really knew why." "Neither did him." "At the time of the renunciation, Vice-President Jango GouIart... was in China on an oficial trip." "His opponents wanted to prevent him from assuming... the presidency of the Republic." "The military forces were called to enforce the constitutional rights... but instead of defending Jango's rights... they threatened to bring down the airplane Jango was in... on his way back to Brazil." "In Sucupira, before the body of the deceased former mayor." "got cold, the campaign to elect the candidate of the ruling party..." "Odorico Paraguaçu, descendent of one of the most prestigious families... of the county, veteran on the state politics... and president of the Convervative Party." "Here am I... with my soul washed and rinsed with indignation... for this cowardly and heinous assassination." "After the assassination of this memorable mayor... this memorable politician." "unforgettable citizen." "the population claims for justice, peace." "and booze!" "What Sucupira needs is a new mayor... that ends this legacy of misery." "left by the former administration." "A chicken costs a thousand cruzeiros." "Who can eat a thousand-cruzeiros chicken?" "The rooster Sir" "Vladimir de Castro, owner of the local newspaper Trombeta and leader of the Revolutionary Party, was the opposition 's candidate." "Bunch of unrepentant atheists!" "Have you no respect for a dead man?" "Opportunist" "All you want are the deceased's votes..." "If the dead could vote, the undertaker would be already elected!" "The dispute for the Town Hall rerlected the global polarization... between two parties the United States leading the capitalist block... righting against the communism, leaded by the Soviet Union." "The planet was on the verge of a nuclear war that would destroy the human race." "But nothing compared to the battle between the political forces of Sucupira." "To bury a deceased you have to come to another town." "My feet are killing me." "Three leagues." "I'm dead." "A little longer and you would have to bury two corpses." "A shame!" "Shame for our mayor, now in state of compulsory deceasedness... having to walk three leagues to be buried." "An embarassment to his family." "It truly is a sin!" "A humiliation to Sucupira, a humiliation to all of us born there." "that have to come to another town to be buried." "Santana is leaving us behind." "We need a cemetery in Sucupira." "It's unbelievable that our town, a model of development in our state... to this day doesn't have a place to bury its dead." "Well said." "It's a matter of life and death, better yet... it's a matter of dead and death," "A town that doesn't respect their own dead can't be respected by the live ones." "We have an urgent urgency of a Holy Ground." "We want a cemetery!" "We want a cemetery!" "Those who love, and why not say." "worship their homeland desire to rest in it." "In our unfortunate town, no one can fulfill this dream." "no one can sleep the eternal sleep in the womb of the land where he was born." "Sucupira, for how long will you still watch your sons emigrate." "for their eternal sleep?" "People from Sucupira, my fellow citizens." "I came dressed in white to make myself more clear." "If elected in this coming election... my first act as mayor will be fulfill the funereal duty of comissioning... the buildage of the town cemetery." "Winnen Winnen" "My fellow citizens!" "I assume the position of this town's mayor with clean hands... e naked heart, stripped nude of any ambition for glory." "On this exhorbitant time, this extrapolating moment." "I cast my eyes to my destiny and seeing in the sky the southern cross... that protect us, I ask God to look after our land... bless the brave people of Sucupira and my administration." "so together we can surpass the sun region." "Hurray Colonel Odorico Paraguaçu!" "A good man." "a brave citizen." "a leader loved by the People of Sucupira!" "Hurray!" "Odorico Paraguaçu won the elections e assumed Sucupira's Town hall..." "Jango Goulart, made the constitution prevail." "and assumed the presidency of Brazil," "Jango would not fulrill the term of his mandate, neither did Odorico... both facts are closely linked... and will have serious consequences on the destiny of our country... this story is a precise, or not, recollection of these events." "THE WELL BELOVED ONE" "My God, how is it possible that the people elected Odorico... where did we go wrong?" "We weren't wrong, the Greeks were." "What do the Greeks have to do with it?" "They invented Democracy." "But we are the real representatives of the majority..." "But the majority has to think this way as well." "Good night, Mr Mayor." "Good night." "if I knew I would have come with three hats." "Would you like a little liqueur?" "Made of jenipapo" "Does the Colonel like?" "I am a certified Jenipapist." "Let's promote a Jenipapation." "Oh, how wild!" "A toast to the mayor Odorico Paraguaçu... a man of enterprise who will give Sucupira an eternal home for their dead!" "And with that, will forever conquer the hearts of the living." "The people of Sucupira loves Odorico" "A love truly corresponded, although I have in my heart... a special booth reserved for my three loves." "Ju, help me with the appetizers." "Dorotea prepared some snacks for our little party." "Great." "Let's nibble on something" "Now that you are mayor, wouldn't it be the right time to elect a first lady?" "Ms Dorotea, if each beat of my heart was a vote... my favorite candidate would be already elected." "Would you like to take off your jacket?" "May I?" "Make yourself home, Odorico" "Don't say that or I may abuse the hospitality you are offering me." "Abuse?" "In what way?" "Horizontal, vertical, as you prefer." "No, Odorico!" "I don't give up the altar!" "Ms Dorotea, you don't always have to go to Rome to see the Pope." "Any problem?" "Just the jacket." "I was helping Mr Mayor put his jacket on." "Your jacket is inside out." "Yes." "I'm having trouble with this jacket." "Could you help me?" "Ms Dulcinea." "Don't Odorico don't..." "This is the last time I ask you." "I won't pursue you any longer." "This is what you said last time" "Really?" "When the heart beats fast, the memory gets weak." "Would you like to sit down, drink a liqueur?" "Good idea." "We'll have a Iiquery couching." "Or if you prefer a couchy Iiquoration" "I better sit some place else." "Why waste a chair when we have enough place on the couch?" "Odorico!" "What happened?" "The jacket." "Ms Dulcinea was helping me button the jacket" "Was it just the jacket she was buttoning?" "There's a fraternal love between Ms Dulciena and I. That's all" "What about me?" "Do you see me as a sister as well?" "I try, but with you is different." "Different in what way?" "Horizontal, vertical." "however you prefer." "What was this scandal about?" "That's exactly what I was asking Ms. Juju." "You might have even scared the Vicar across the square!" "And note that the vicar, in terms of deafness is almost a Beethoven!" "How did this happen?" "Ms Juju had a little to drink and if you didn't show up..." "I was getting ready to run out the door before she abandoned... the abstracts and moved on to the concretisml" "If you understand what I'm saying." "We understand perfectly well, mayor." "May the Lord forgive us, but we better end this celebration." "I understand." "Though, my heart will continue to rejoice with the memories... of this evening and your promises of etc..." "Juju!" "Moleza Get Out" "Cheer our Mayor" "Hey Mr. Moleza... is it true that you are spreading rumors that I have no shame?" "That I said but I don't sustain it anymore." "Then behave straight and you can count on me" "But behaving I wont need anybody's help." "We need to take care of the buildment of the cemetery" "The town hall expenses are all there" "I was not referring to a butterfly cemetery." "This is my collection." "I just added an Agripina Titanus, a very rare item." "Listen Mr Dirceu, I have nothing against your Agripinas... but let's get to work." "We are on business hours, you are a town hall employee... and this work is incompatible with your butterflyments." "Yes sir." "I want to inaugurate the cemetery in three months at the most... with a first burial that will be financed by the city." "We could even." "No, to offer a prize wouldn't look good, but sponsoring funerals... and providing some pomp, that would be more than fair." "A burial ceremony with luxuries and all deservence." "A marching band." "funeral march." "marbled and epitaphed mausoleum signaling the pioneerism of the deceased." "The first to be buried in Sucupira's land." "My cemetery will be a monument tothe dead." "like the pyramids of Egypt." "The budget is pharaonic too." "What does it matter?" "We are building for eternity!" "But the disbursement is immediate." "Money is not a problem." "Soon the town will be packed with summer tourists... and we'll make money on taxes." "The businesses are making money, the population employed... the town hall coffers will fill up with money." "Which Odorico is going to bury in a luxurious cemetery." "Any one can govern like that." "The population thinks that Odorico is doing a good job." "The population doesn't know right from wrong." "If it did it would not have elected the bastard!" "I don't know if it's right or wrong but it's working alright!" "He has never been so popular." "You have no choice" "You can't join him, and protesting won't get us anywhere." "You're right." "In order to deal with bastards you have to act like a one." "SHARK IN SUCUPIRA" "Do not listen to this disgusting, subversive and yellowish press." "This is just a despicable and slanderous conspiracy against Sucupirian Democracy." "Look, I'm going to prove you that the news are unfounded." "this man will get into the ocean." "Me, Mr. mayor?" "Do you also believe in that communist shark?" "Believe, I don't." "But what if is true?" "If it's true I'm sorry for the shark that has to eat such a coward as you." "Can you tell me what this is?" "An encyclopedia." "This photo!" "It's from a fish of cartilaginous bones... commonly known... as shark." "And why did you use a photo from an encyclopedia to illustrate a story... on Trombeta's front page?" "Because you, the newspapers Photographer." "could not take a Picture of the beast." "Maybe I coudn't because this shark does not exist!" "Of course it exists, I invented myself." "We published a lie just to harm Odorico politically?" "If the population knew the truth, he would not be elected." "What moral do we have to criticize the mayor... when we also lie to the population?" "Moral and politics are two separate things..." "That complement each other." "Nobody wins an election telling only the truth." "Odorico lies all the time to remain on the power." "Why can't I lie once on a while." "Because this is what makes us different from our opponents." "What makes us different from our Opponents... is that I'm lying for a legitimate cause." "Not everything is permited to a righteous man." "even if to serve a legitimate cause." "The cemetery is a campaign promise." "I'm a man of one word, I'm not a man of two words." "We need money to build the walls, the chapel e a bronze plaque." "where the people from Sucupira will place their gratitude to my person." "We cannot desapoint the population." "There are the funds for the energy." "But that is to increse the power." "Why increasing the power?" "The light is too dim, colonel." "You can barely read at night." "Why read at night?" "You can read during the day." "And after all this is a summer resort, very appreciated by the lovers." "It must have a soft light so they can appreciate the moonlight." "There is the water fund as well." "All that just to fix the pipes?" "And the article twenty two does not allow relocating it to other purposes." "Come on Mr Dirceu, this article, is no good." "Find another one that allows it." "But these are funds for public emergencies." "Is there public service more urgent." "than the very urgent building of the public cemetery?" "Water and energy can wait." "There'll be a water shortage and blackouts." "It's going to be chaos." "So the shark was great." "Maybe tomorrow we spread the word of a yellow fever epidemic?" "It's going to be chaos." "Yes... chaos!" "Wont that be great, we have to pull the rope until it snaps." "The worst the populace's situation the bigger its disposition... to fight for a change." "The worst the people situation the worst is the situation of the people." "The rope always breaks on the weaker side." "You don't make an omelet without breaking eggs." "When there are eggs" "Am I interrupting something?" "Just the beating of my heart." "Now that you are the mayor... don't you think that your life needs a feminine touch?" "No way, Ms Dulcinea, I'm a man in compulsory widower state." "You are so young and you've been a widower for ten years already." "I can't ask any woman to share with me the life of sacrifice." "and renounce of a polititian." "I have no choice." "A woman in my situation has to get married, not to be badmouthed." "What happened between us stays between us." "But no men is going to want me for his wife." "when he knows I took a wrong step." "But it was such a little step." "If I could I would have gone so much farther" "Me too." "Really?" "To the altar" "I carry out my campaign promises after elected." "But I have to talk to my daughter before." "Your daughter is not a little girl anymore." "Yes but she goes to nun's school." "She's very religious, very restrained." "You can come out, I saw you there." "When I realised you were already undressing." "I was embaraced to let you know." "I'll pretend to believe." "No need." "If you saw me before, you got undressed because you wanted to." "I was longing for a dive." "I've never seen this beach so empty." "It's because of the shark" "Is there a shark around here?" "Apparently yes." "Raillery of you not warning me." "The truth is..." "You wanted to seem me naked e let me take the risk." "The shark doesn't exist." "It was a lie from the newspaper." "Sons of a bitch." "I know." "At least it's a lie." "Let's swim." "I didn't bring swimming trunks." "Come on your underwear." "As you haven't stopped looking at my panties." "it's time for a retribution." "Good night Mr Dirceu." "We're already past the business hours." "It's a private matter." "You are lucky." "I've just opened the business for private matters." "So I'll stay to close the doors afterwards." "If you stay, the matter will no longer be private." "So good evening, doctor Odorico." "That will depend on Ms. Juju." "Don't worry," "I'll do my best to make you night good." "I shouldn't have kissed you so fast." "You are going to be too conceited, and will soon get bored." "I want to date you, I want to marry you, I want to have children with you..." "I want to die before you do." "Let's date first" "Ok, now let's get married." "Hold on, you have to propose." "And my father has to give the permission." "Your father is going to like me." "You don't know my father." "I am a nice guy." "Oh yeah?" "And what do you do?" "I fight against the rich in favor of the poor... for justice against oppression." "I want to change the world, make a revolution." "Opps, I don't think my father is going to like you." "Hurray Odorico Paraguaçu!" "The hotest man in Sucupira." "Ms Judicea, I thank you for the compliments, but stop making a scene." "Do you want to give amunition to the opponents?" "I want to give you amunition, Odorico!" "So you can kill me with pleasure!" "Stop that, Ms Juju!" "Only if you give me a kiss." "But it has to be a very obscene kiss!" "Drunk as you are, any kiss will be obscene." "I am glad that you arrived." "What happened?" "She had too much to drink." "Holly Virgin!" "How many glasses did she have?" "And do you think I had time count?" "She drunk straight from the bottle!" "Juju can't hold her liquor." "I believe hers is another problem." "What do you mean?" "Your sister is out of control, Ms Dorotea." "Juju needs to get married." "It's the only way to calm her down." "Odorico..." "I can't handle it." "I'm only one." "Not you." "I have to find a man to marry Juju." "What man?" "I know, it's hard." "I couldn't find one for myself either..." "This is not the time for demands, Ms Dorotea." "So why don't we get married Odorico?" "What about Ms Juju?" "She is crazy for me." "I don't want to be responsible for the destruction of a family." "Until your sister finds a husband we cannot be married." "I was first." "I have priority for services rendered." "Let go, he is mine!" "Let's go Juju I will take you home." "Hurray Odorico Paraguaçu!" "The hottest man in Sucupira!" "What a shame!" "You can take the flag." "It's the least Town Hall can do for its tax payers." "Excuse me." "Hurray Mr Odorico!" "Hurray our Mayor." "Why are you being nice to me, Mr Moleza?" "Do you need money or cachaça?" "Money." "The Mrs. is pregnant again." "I have already eight kids to raise!" "Eight kids?" "You must pace yourself now." "Come on, Sir, the only fun rich people didn't take away from the poor... is making babies." "Would you help me?" "Iwill find you a job!" "What I really need is some money." "A paid job, of course:" "I will make you the town undertaker." "Could you front me the salary?" "He who does not work does not eat, Mr Moleza." "The thing is that my wife is pregnant Again... and I was caught kind of unprepared." "If you, the father was caught unprepared." "imagine me who just found out..." "Father, do you think we can fall in love more than once in a lifetime?" "Love is like a banana tree... only gives one bunch." "So if we fall in love with someone we should stay with that person." "And if you lose that person, as it happened to me, you should ever get married again." "But you should." "You are the only companion I intend to have in my life." "But I can fall in love and want to married someone." "Marry?" "Who?" "Hold on." "First you answer me what do you think of this idea." "regardless of the groom." "It's still too early, when you fall in love we'll see." "I already did." "With whom?" "With Neco, dad." "I'm dating him." "Not even if starts raining frog's hair!" "from the yellowish press." "You should separate things." "Separate how?" "Those scoundrels conspire against my administration e write slanderish thing against me!" "Still, Neco wants you as father in law." "This is the proof that he loves me." "And the proof that I love you is not wanting him as son in law." "You should not consort with your father's enemies." "It happened, there is nothing I can do." "But I can, you are underage and I wont allow this shamelessness." "You can't stop it." "Your vacation is over." "I'm sending you back to the capital." "I doubt it" "You doubt it?" "You would not have the courage." "Why not?" "Because deep down you are a good father." "I am not a good father." "I can be horrible when I want." "Your father is a dictator." "You provoke him, you don't stop badmouthing him." "I cannot say good things about you father." "when he wants to prevent us from seeing each other." "But he wants to prevent us from seeing each other... because you keep badmouthing him." "I do it in defense of the people." "The people voted for my father" "Well: my job is to inform the people of what is best for them." "And of course, what's best for them is you." "I don't need to agree with your father to love you." "So you rather lose me?" "Not that either." "I just don't find fair having to choose." "This means you have already made your choice." "Violeta..." "Bye, Neco." "We'll meet someday." "Now I want to hear what those that accuse me of being an opportunist... and demagogue will say now that the masons are raising the walls, building the chapel, paving the aisles" "They will say that the town is in chaos because you embezzled one million cruzeiros... from the town's budget to build this cemetery." "One and hundred millions." "Our party has the right often percent commission for campaign expenses." "Off the books?" "Mr Odorico, this is completely irregular." "Eveyone does it." "My election was very expensive." "Do you want me to spend my own money?" "But these are public funds, we cannot spend on the election." "Why not?" "Without elections there's no democracy!" "Are you against democracy?" "The budget is already tight." "If you take one dime off, we will not finish the public work." "So let's save on the construction material and over charge." "But Mr mayor..." "What is the problem?" "We won't take money any more, we'll just stop spending." "Is saving public funds irregular as well?" "The mayor Odorico Paraguaçu visited the site where the cemetery of Sucupira... will be installed, with the word, the mayor" "The construction is finished... waiting solely the preparations for the inauguration." "Excuse me" "Sure." "Here virtue and beauty... have a visa." "To what do I owe the visit?" "In fact, nothing, because the visit is not for you." "Oh no?" "Who to then?" "To Mr Dirceu Butterfly." "To me?" "Sure." "I came to you for a consultation." "As a man you will be able to answer me." "I doubt it very much." "Mr Dirceu... tell me honestly... do you find me as a woman that lacks physical attractives?" "Yes or no?" "I think..." "Thinks yes or thinks no?" "Ms Dulcinea, Mr Dirceu only knows about butterflies." "Answer Mr Dirceu." "You are very pretty, Ms Dulcinea." "So explain to me why I haven't found in this town a man willing to marry me?" "Well, if you allow me." "Permission granted." "Permission revoked!" "He is a town hall employee and we are in business hours." "If there is not a man in Sucupira capable of marrying a single." "and available woman like myself, this a town problem not mine." "And being a town problem, is a town hall problem as well." "Answer Mr Dirceu." "Why no man wants to marry me?" "Ms Dulcinea, if the men of Sucupira find out you want to get married, there will be a line of candidates at your door." "Would you get in that line, Mr Dirceu?" "For sure Ms Dulcinea." "I promise to look at your proposal with care." "Did I make a proposal?" "If you do, will be very welcome." "Me?" "I want to be the first in line." "I'm very sorry, this place is Mr Dirceu's already." "I'm talking about another line." "The congratulations one." "Congratulations!" "When the time of the wedding comes, I demand to be the best man!" "Nice robe." "It belonged to my dead father." "He wore it for his honeymoon." "To bring luck to the marriage." "Did it work?" "Not much." "He found out thay my mother was not a virgin..." "Oh!" "And what did he do?" "He did what he had to do." "Next day he left and never came back." "Not even to pick up the robe." "What a shame." "But you got a nice robe." "Thanks." "Do you have any preferences?" "Preferences?" "For the side of the bed." "Oh ,yes, sorry." "I'm a little nervous." "It's natural." "First time, right..." "Exactly, I wanted to tell you..." "Don't worry." "I won't do you harm." "Sure, you have a lot of experience." "None." "You have never been with a woman before?" "Just in the magazines." "Have you ever known a woman?" "In the biblical sense, never." "So you don't know very well how a woman is..." "Just in theory." "In practice this is the first time?" "Yes." "In practice we will have to stick with the theory." "I don't understand." "I am a oblate brother Who's brother?" "Oblate brother." "I made a chastity vote." "But now you tell me something like that?" "DOWN HITLER OF SUCUPIRA" "Crooks!" "Bastards!" "Is everything all right, Mr mayor?" "For those who like the worst, it's great." "Did you read the Tombreta yet?" "Not yet." "Those crooks are calling me demagogue, spendrif of the public funds... and all kinds of names." "This is not a newspaper!" "It is a manifest, manifestedly infested of certified Iefties practitioners." "This is a subversive plot that wants to malign me with the public opinion." "Mr Odorico, take your tranquilizer." "I don't need a tranquilizer." "what I need is a revoltizer." "I will sue this sensacionalist pamphlet for slander." "This would just make them sell more papers!" "Cancel all the official publicity the town hall does in this rag." "I won't give a dime to this kind of defamers no more." "Our publicity funds were exhausted a long time ago." "So cancel my newspaper subscription!" "But you buy the newspaper from the news stand." "So go there and ask for my money back!" "I am spending my money to have them badmouth me." "The truth is Mr mayor... there has been a year that the cemetery was built... and until today has not been inaugurated." "Only because, it happened what could not happen." "Better: what should have happened did not happen." "It is not my fault." "You only have one way out:" "inaugurate the cemetery." "Inaugurate how?" "If there has been a year that no one dies in this land!" "Is there anyone sick in town?" "On a state that gives us hope, apparently no one." "Almost every year there is a tourist that drowns." "This year the ocean looks lake a lagoon." "I've never seen such bad luck!" "I've walked all over town, asked everyone." "Nobody knows of someone who is about to croak." "Is it possible that no one dies in this town?" "It is very hard, Mr." "There is a big lack of deceaseds." "The solution is to be patient and have faith in God." "It's easy for you to be patient." "Making money without having to work." "But I don't get paid!" "Don't change the subject." "Paid or not, you are the town's parasite." "Making a mockery of the image of the public services." "Am I right or not Mr Dirceu?" "The truth is that the undertaker citizen never liked to strain." "Starting with the nickname people gave you: slacker." "When I hired this parasite, I believed he was going to unconfirm the nickname." "But nothing happened." "It's lost case." "But is it my fault, that no one gives me work?" "I gave you the fishing pole and taught you how to fish." "You find the fish!" "Inaugurate without a deceased!" "This would be a demoralization... would be attesting the uselessness of the cemetery." "So what are we going to do?" "I don't know Mr Dirceu..." "I spend my days trying to reverse this necrophilic recess and can't work it out." "Sorry for the interruption, Mr mayor!" "We took the liberty..." "My friends, I can't now." "We are in business hours and I really have to meet with my staff." "Sorry, but a telegram from Aunt Clotilde just arrived!" "If it's a private matter, you better leave for another time." "It is not." "I t is a matter of interest to the town hall..." "But it is top secret." "Do you remember the cousin I told you about, cousin Ernesto... second degree cousin?" "He is arriving." "A telegram from the capital just arrived saying that he leaves today." "I believe you would make a point of greeting him personally." "on behalf of the town." "I don't." "I make no point." "But the mayor will surely send the town hall car to pick him up at the bridge." "I can't." "The opposition will to say it is favoritism, that I am wasting gas bought with people's money on tours with friends." "No, the ladies will forgive me but the good example must come from the top." "Your cousin will to have to walk." "But he can't!" "He is sick, given over by the doctors!" "Given over?" "On his last legs!" "Don't you remember?" "This is the cousin I told you about, who was very sick at the capital." "Severe pneumonia, poor thing!" "Severe?" "that the town hall would pay for all the expenses;" "Of course, the town hall will pay for everything!" "I wrote them and he came." "We are saved, Mr Diceu!" "We are saved!" "We found a deceased!" "Nota deceased, he is alive." "But he'll surely die, right?" "That's what the doctors say." "He is agonizing!" "He may die during the trip." "Die during the trip?" "He can't!" "He has to die here." "Why didn't you tell me before?" "I would have taken measures, sent a doctor to come with him." "Die during the trip, no way." "They may send the body back!" "Let us pray that this doesn't happen" "No." "Now there is no time for praying." "Let's organize a reception committee to greet cousin Ernesto... with all the excellences." "With the town hall car?" "Of course, such an important guest!" "Ask Mr Moleza to start preparing the grave that a tenant is on its way." "As the town did not have enough problems the mayor decided to import a moribund." "At least he's not competing for our jobs." "But will stay in a luxury hotel on the town's expenses." "The patient's stay will burden even more... the town's already wom out health system." "Worn out how?" "Our mortality rates were zero this year!" "No one is going to take seriously this lying newspaper's slandering campaign!" "They already did, Mr Odorico." "The town council is demanding cousin Ernesto's extradition." "Send the patient back?" "In twenty four hours." "Heartless." "Don't respect even a moribund." "I don't find very convenient to accomodate the cousin here..." "You know, we are two single ladies, it wouldn't look good." "The time is for heroism and sacrifice, my friends." "After all we have invested to draw this potential candidate... tothe eternal rest over here!" "I'm willing to risk my reputation for our cause." "I am not asking that much, Ms Juju." "It is just a gesture of charity towards a relative, society will understand." "And after all, it is not going to be for very long" "God willing." "Go take care of cousin Ernesto's retrieval e also take his measurements to save time." "Won't it not look bad, Sir?" "What looks bad is when the time comes, not having a coffin ready... and have bury the poor thing in a shoe box!" "He is still agonizing." "Still?" "Seven days already?" "I have never seen such a talent for agonizing." "He is a practicing agonist." "I'm not sure that bringing the cousin here was such a good idea." "There is an air of wake in this house." "You need to have a some fun." "Odorico, don't you know I'm saving myself to..." "Ms Dorotea, what is saved is to be used!" "Ms Juju, what were you doing in there?" "Taking care of cousin Ernesto." "Did you bathe him?" "Every day is the same." "Even powder she puts on the moribund." "Just because the unfortunate is going to die... doesn't mean he doesn't deserve our compassion." "Wouldn't it be enough to just pray for his soul?" "Do you need to take care of his body too?" "I already told her." "If someone finds out the tongues will start wagging." "The One up there knows my intentions are pure!" "Sure, but the one in there must not have any pure intentions... in these baths you are giving him." "The poor thing is dying, mayor!" "There is not a single part of his body that moves." "But it will end up moving!" "Went off!" "The cousin?" "No the candle." "I've never seen a dead man waste so many candles..." "Dodo, do you think we should tell him the truth?" "It is our duty Dudu... if we don't inform him we will become accomplices." "Excuse me?" "Are we disturbing?" "Of course not, come on in... the ladies know that have all permission." "and licenses." "to enter and settle... not only in this place but equally in my heart." "Any news?" "Some." "And the deceased?" "I mean, the sick, poor thing." "Cousin Emesto..." "There has been three months that he arrived and still this agony, right?" "Yes." "But there is no good that lasts forever and no bad that never ends." "So?" "Mr mayor, get ready for a big surprise." "Don't tell me that?" "Cousin Ernesto is completely recovered." "Can I enter?" "Sure, make yourself home." "Are you sure I'm not disturbing?" "No, no." "Why would you?" "Honey, did you iron my under." "Oh, sorry, I didn't know we had a guest." "Ernesto, this is doctor Odorico." "Nice to meet you." "He got well." "We can see that." "Juju talks a Iot about you." "Ms Judicea." "I'm truly impressed." "Yes." "No one believed it, not even the doctors." "But he started getting better and better..." "And ended like that." "Looks like a miracle." "The town's air." "The water." "The weather." "Being the mayor of such a town... must be happiness." "You deserve my congratulations Thank you." "Accepted." "When I get back to the capital." "I'll make good advertisement of this place." "And of you as well." "It is the only way I can pay for what you did for me." "For us." "Mr Odorico is a man with a big heart." "He was really concerned when he heard about your illness." "Swiftly extended all the recourses of the town for your benefit." "All of us." "And if for a misfortune you didn't get cured... all the expenses would be payed by the city:" "First class memorial services with all the pomp and circumstance." "Already prepared." "Already prepared?" "We have foresight here, Mr Ernesto." "I thank you anyway, although, fortunately it was not necessary." "Yes." "fortunately" "He came with the compromise of dying here!" "What a lack of word!" "Now even my allies are starting to betray me." "I feel just like Jesus sold by Judas... or like Julius Cesar." "betrayed by Brutus." "I don't know who to count on." "You know you can count on my solidarity." "I don't need solidarity Mr Diceu, I need a deceased." "A deceased!" "Let's bury Odorico Paraguaçu." "Let's inaugurate the cemetery." "Those mockerists were trained in Cuba and Moscow." "It is an international conspiracy to bring me down..." "Hurray Odorico... dead!" "Boozer!" "I am going to fire him." "The tranquilizerl" "When he drinks he starts saying insults against me." "But when he is sober he is your biggest ally." "He is a double face individual, a bi-facial!" "O-do-ri-co Para- gua-gu!" "Will use the cemetery to breed vultures." "Why they're complaining?" "The town has never been so peaceful." "But what about the strikes, doctor?" "All is closed." "Exactly." "So calm." "They want to sacrifice me for building a monument to the dead." "The problem is the lack of dead." "is it my fault that people are not helping?" "Plus, a land where there are no crimes, no disasters." "Sucupira is a peaceful town," "This peacefulness is our disgrace." "Everyone here is good." "There is no violence like in Rio de Janeiro, Séo Paulo!" "It has been more than a year since the last murder!" "That's it!" "Lets go after what is missing in this town." "You are going after a deceased?" "Not at all." "I'll go after a decease-maker." "A killer?" "Zeca Devil!" "You cannot shelter a mayor's killer!" "But is was in self defense." "Colonel Lidario shot first." "Because Zeca told him to." "If he did not shoot he would die." "He died anyway." "And also lost the moral ground." "Zeca Devil disappeared, is in hiding." "So find him." "Me Mr mayor?" "The man is a beast." "Don't you worry Mr Dirceu, you are braver than you think." "Hands up!" "Mr Zeca, for God's sake have mercy." "Ok: so you will be the last to die." "I brought you a message from the mayor of Sucupira." "And why these two armed goons?" "It is because this is a dangerous area full of criminals..." "I mean." "with all due respect." "You get over here." "The two of you start praying to expedite the Job." "The mayor may forgive me." "But the judge will have me arrested." "He won't, because we will kill you before." "What is that, man?" "Easy Mr Zeca, it is a mayor's plan." "Well, I have a better one to show you." "You just die on paper." "Then you will revive." "Is your boss a mayor or a miracle maker?" "Everything is arranged." "I just need you full name." "My name I won't tell you, no way Mr." "It just to have your death certificate made... by the notary." "Man, boy!" "You have this thing about killing me!" "Dead, justice cannot condemn you." "José Tranquilino dos Santos, your servant." "At the same register office I will have you registered as Zeca Devil... and you become a new man." "And why is it that Mr doctor colonel mayor is doing this for me?" "For nothing." "All I want is for you to come back living in your hometown." "One of the principles of my political platform is the pacification... of the Sucupirian family." "Does your honor know why I left?" "I know, your mishap with colonel Lidario." "But what happened before does not count." "What counts is what the citizen can do forwardly." "Two brothers and four sons already came after me for revenge.." "and I liquidated them all." "Six bodies." "Six burials." "Abundant times!" "I am not what they say around doctor." "My patron Father Ciço, who is up there." "crouched right next to Our Lord's right side knows that until this day I only killed in defense of the honor or my life." "They say that there were more than three hundred, is it true?" "Slander." "Mr mayor." "Not even ten dozen." "And most of them died because they were in the way of the bullet... not that I wanted, I never wanted to kill anyone." "Not mentioning the race of colonel Lidario Bessa." "If I knew there was one left... even a distant relative." "believe me I would go after him in hell, under Satan's chamber pot." "Are you sure there is not really anyone left?" "No one left." "I'm sure" "But nobody is going to bother you now." "And if someone does, react." "A man that takes home an offense is not a man." "And honor you can only wash with blood." "Right, blood!" "Look captain Zeca Devil." "you are a men with such a spirit ofjustice... that Ijust had an idea;" "I'll give a proof of my trust." "I am going to nominate you for a high position." "in the local administration." "Are you serious Mr doctor?" "I have never been so serious in my life!" "We need your past of your banditries, of your desert know-how... of your brave spirit." "Very well, from this day on you will be my chief of police." "Chief?" "Chief of Police?" "With full power to rock the hammer." "Equal distribution of the land now Down with the Iatifundium!" "The fight goes on!" "Goes on!" "Off Odorico!" "Off Odorico!" "Mr Moleza, open the gate." "We are coming in." "I can't Mr Vladimir." "If you were dead it would be my pleasure to let you in." "We are bringing it down!" "Was the chief of police warned?" "He is on his way there." "This is a plot from the rascal and bolchevics Iefties to plant disorder." "and destabilize my administraton." "I am speaking for the strangled voice of those who cannot talk." "In their name I claim, in front of the nation's representatives..." "I shout to the streets," "I yell to the winds." "Well, shut up because you are disturbing the peace of the dead!" "What dead?" "There is no one buried here." "Do you want to plant manioc in the cemetery?" "A cemetery where you plant manioc... and do not bury anyone is not a cemetery." "it is a manioc plantation." "But the manioc has to be planted some place else... even if I have to bury you in this cemetery." "Chief gather the public force and throw the invaders out." "Leave it to me, I can handle it by myself." "If they resist, beat up the subversives." "No, no, we won'tgo!" "Equal distribuiton of the land now!" "Doctor, you will only stay here when dead." "Comrade Zeca Devil." "Call me captain." "Comrade means we are all equal." "And captain means we are not." "You lost your mind." "The order to expel will provoque a blood bath." "This hemorrhagic consequence is the price to pay." "for a major historical gesture." "But Mr mayor, there might be death!" "Who knows, maybe we oust the invaders." "e inaugurate the cemetery at the same time." "So, captain, did you beat up the rowdies?" "I did not, sir." "Did they run before you asked?" "No sir, they are still there." "What happened then?" "Doctor, I was really willing to make them run." "But they are not what you think." "They are all poor people, like me, with no place to drop dead." "If they want to drop dead over there, they will give me great pleasure." "But alive they cannot stay in the cemetery." "The equal distribution of the land law guarantees the invasion." "I'm not sure if you know it." "Of course I know." "But the law also says we have the right to rock the hammer." "when public property is invaded.." "That I have not read, no." "Because you did not read it all with full attention." "I did not read because I cannot read sentences... but Mr Vladimir read it for me." "Captain Zeca Devil, I don't understand your behavior." "Your leave here to rock the hammer on those sons of a bitch... e come back defending the subversion of the order?" "Because there was no reason to rock the hammer, doctor." "Those who do not vote for the administration have no right... with the chief of police." "But they are in their right." "What right?" "The land is unproductive because you never found a deceased." "I didn't find it?" "You didn't find it." "But I didn't go there to kill nobody, I went there to expel the men." "But you did not expel!" "Because the law guarantees." "And as a representative of the law..." "What is this, captain?" "So you are a representative of the law against me?" "Doctor, as chief of police I must be fair." "You know what, captain, I don't need a doctor on laws here." "I need a determined man, less talk, a man of action." "I was told you have dispatched three hundred;" "but from what I see you are not capable of dispatching anybody." "I was,Doctor... now I am rehabilitated." "Couldn't you have waited a little longer?" "I could not." "I could not stand that life any longer, always running from the militias... killing to live... killing not to be killed." "You turned into a softy!" "Don't talk like that to me Mr colonel mayor." "Why did I shelter you here, taking risks, risking my position?" "Was it for you to become this penitent Magdalena?" "Do not talk to me like that or..." "I may forget the respect." "and esteem I have for you..." "As a killer, you are a shame to the class!" "You captain, is worth nothing, you are a wuss." "I promised my patron Father Ciço to count to ten before killing a man.." "is one, two, three, is four, is five. is six... is seven." "is eight, is nine is ten!" "Thank you, my patron." "Thanks for holding my hand and restraining me from breaking my promisse." "Where were you?" "I am cowardly assaulted and have no one to defend me." "Is he gone?" "Begged for forgiveness on his knees." "If it was not for my moral authority and he would have killed me." "You have to fire him!" "It would give the yellow press argument to criticize me for designating him." "But you cannot become a hostage of the opposition and this outlaw at the same time." "You are right." "Let's counter attack." "I want you to do an audit of Trombeta's tax reports!" "They can accuse us of political persecution." "Don't they say that I emptied the public coffers?" "So they are going to help us fill them up paying the due taxes!" "They will say we are trying to prevent them from the exercise of free press." "They are preventing the exercise of free press." "If you don't pay, justice will close the newspaper" "Odorico wants to stop me from denouncing that he steals... from the public coffers." "But cheating on taxes is also theft!" "It's totally different." "Odorico steals for self benefit." "I conceal the taxes to fight people like him that steals from the people." "Why don't they investigate the accounts of the cemetery." "That construction was overbudget." "Where did all that money go?" "That is whatwe will find out." "Ernesto when will you go back to work." "I am on health leave." "Netinho is very weak, he needs to recover." "Beware of the shark!" "Do not get in the ocean." "There is no shark cousin." "That was drivel from the newspaper." "This one's illness is work." "Stop teasing, Juju is so happy." "She even quit drinking." "Ernesto drinks for both of them." "Not every woman gets to marry a saint like Dirceu." "Too saintly." "The most important thing in a married is respect." "Love is more important." "When love is over, respect remains." "When the love is over, the married ends." "You are lucky to be single." "But it won't be for long." "You keep on saying this but I never even seen you dating." "I have a secret love, Du" "Really?" "But now I can reveal it." "Oh, pity!" "Sound like a pulp romance." "Who is he?" "Odorico." "Yes I have been saving myself all my life to marry him dressed in white." "I want him to be proud of me when he's standing at the altar and I enter the church in the beautiful white dress that I had made." "You have already made the dress?" "I've had it hidden for five years." "But I can show you now." "I don't want to see." "Why not?" "Odorico is my lover." "Lie!" "He promissed to marry me, I'm not as strong as you are." "But now you are married." "Leave Odorico for me." "Ju, would you give me you sandwich?" "Mine fell in the sand." "Sure Nena." "I'm going swimming." "Don't go too far." "You cannot handle it." "Come Netinho" "I lost my swimming trunks!" "Netinhol" "I found it!" "Nena!" "He really died, doctor." "It was the shark." "What shark?" "This animal is an invention of that rag!" "It's not." "The fishermen were at the beach." "They saw the beast attack the guy!" "Poor cousin." "Should not be a very pretty sight." "Deceased has no defect." "Specially when he has the pioneering chore of inaugurating our cemetery." "Here is whatwe managed to retrieve." "Swimming trunks?" "Do you think I can bury a pair of swimming trunks?" "It would not look good" "The shark ate the rest." "So go after it." "Yes, Sir." "Make it vomit." "I fear cemeteries badly" "This is not a cemetery yet." "There's no one buried here." "Do you want to kill me of a heart attack?" "A deceased!" "A deceased!" "Gosh!" "Am I so skiny that I Iook dead?" "What are you doing inside that grave?" "Sleeping." "By the way, very badly." "I am all crooked." "This grave is too small." "You can only bury a midget here." "Are the other graves small like that?" "I will tell you something: the guy who wants to be burried here." "will have to die seated, to make the job easier." "Neco do you realize what Odorico did?" "The crook spent a fortune in this cemetery, but saved on material." "Guess where the Money left from the construction is?" "Not in my pocket." "I did not received my greenbacks yet." "If you want to make some change, get in the grave so we can take a photo." "Change?" "I rather make some real money.." "The current mayor built a cemetery for midgets to steal money... from the people!" "But Sucupira is a land of giants:" "It won't associate with the parasites... it won't forgive the criminals." "and it will not give the traitors a rest." "Sucupira." "will stop... the tyrant." "Out Odorico" "Mr mayor, the opposition filed an impeachment motion..." "against your administration." "Those communists... won't succeed on revoking my mandate." "We have the majority of the town council." "It is even now." "The administration assemblymen are joining the opposition." "They are afraid of going down with you." "Traitors, ingrates." "You must go to the council to defend yourself." "To be booed?" "We can see that you don't sail the whirlwinds of high politics." "Arrange a secretive political confabulation with Mr Vladimir." "The rivers." "and brooks of discredit and opprobium." "Hi." "Hi." "Everything alright over here?" "We keep on badmouthing your father." "I don't mind anymore." "No?" "I joined the students movement." "Now I am in favour of the social revolutiom" "Now you are a comrade." "Iam." "But I liked better when I was your girlfriend." "Allow me to greet the brave and courageous leader of the opposition." "and say that for me, above the party interests." "ays the well being and progress of Sucupira." "Doesn't look like it." "Your administration has thrown the town into chaos and disorder." "Maybe one day, you will seat in this chair." "and will see things with different eyes." "Maybe." "But surely, very soon you wont be seating in it any more." "In politics thare are no certainties." "andthe situation changes like the clouds." "At this moment the clouds in the sky of politics are heavy for you." "And you can be the wind that will blow them away." "I see myself more as a lightning falling on your head." "I just need time to find shelter." "The storm falls when least expected." "And falls over the heads of everyone." "But let's leave the metereologic meanwhiles aside and get to the political finals." "What do you want to have ten of the opposition councilmen to vote against the annulment of your polical term?" "What do you have to offer?" "I am the one who nominates the candidate of my party for the next elections." "I can choose a weak one who will lose for you." "I don't trust you to fulfill agreements in the future." "I want my share now, in cash." "Greatly great." "Why didn't you tell me before that you accepted bribes?" "This is whatwe call expropriation of the burgeois capital." "in favour of the revolution." "And how much are you intending to expropriate?" "Half of what you stole from the construction of the cemetery." "There was no theft." "We call this monetary contribuition from the contractors... to the political cause." "Which your generosity will surely make you share with us." "As I always say, Mr Valdimir:" "talking we understand each other." "In political disputes the two lose." "Careful Violeta, let's slow down." "What is it, don't you like me?" "That is precisely why, I don't want to take advantage of you." "But I am the one who wants." "Better after we get married." "Before or after, what difference does it make?" "People may talk." "Aren't you against burgeois morals?" "I don't want to be blamed of corrupting you." "You won't, I was already corrupted." "You are no longer a virgin?" "That is not fashionable in the capital." "Here it still is." "But it's starting not to." "Speak for youself." "What is wrong?" "I don't think that what you are trying to do is right." "Have you never heard of the sexual revolution?" "This is something from the children of the burgeoisie." "You are mad at me because I am not a virgin any more." "I can't say that this was a big contribution to the love I feel for you." "You did not want to sleep with me because I was a virgin... now you don't want to marry me because I am not." "I did not want to sleep with you so that you could marry as a virgin." "Too late." "It is missing a part of what we agreed on." "We deducted the taxes." "Taxes on bribe?" "I am refering to the due taxes from your newspaper." "So tell the mayor that I will deduct some of the votes from my group... of representatives." "Are you selling out to Odorico?" "Iam." "He bought votes from the opposition." "You are freeing him from the impeachment!" "Of course not." "You are disregarding the agreement you made with him, then?" "No... the opposition will vote in favor of the administration." "But with this money I will buy the administration representatives." "to vote against Odorico." "As they represent the majority... the majority becomes ours." "You accepted a bribe from Odorico to be able to bribe his representatives?" "Isn't it a brilliant plan?" "Depending on the point of view." "And what is your point of view?" "I preffer to pretend I am blind." "Odorico something serious happened." "I know the representatives of my party are turning against me." "I am pregnant from you." "From me?" "It can be from your husband." "It cannot." "Dirceu is an oblate brother." "Who's brother?" "Oblate brother." "He took a chastity vow." "Chastity vote?" "And you knew that?" "And he will soon find out you didn't take a chastity vow." "We will run away before that." "I cannot ask you for that sacrifice." "Did you forget you are already married?" "The married was not consummated." "Iwill annul it." "I am already engaged to you sister." "But she is not pregnant from you." "She could not..." "Well." "I am." "Let us not be hasty." "We were already hasty!" "That is why, now is time to be calm." "How will I explain this child?" "There is one way:" "seducing Mr Dirceu." "Are you trying to throw me into another man's arms?" "But he is your husband!" "But you are the man I love." "So you have to protect me from such a scandal." "I cannot recognize this child now." "I am facing the biggest crisis of my whole political career." "And it is going to get a Iot worst:" "I will goto Trombeta's offices to give an exclusive interview." "You can't do that." "Why not?" "We love each other, I am the father of your child." "That is exactly what I will tell them." "I knew you would be here." "Do not think I was waiting for you." "I have something to tell you." "I thought I had heard all I had to hear." "No, there's more." "You don't say?" "Can I tell you?" "Why?" "All right, then I won't say." "No, you can say." "Never mind." "Please." "I lost the desire." "Look, I have something to tell you too." "One more indelicacy, maybe?" "I am a virgin." "I was embarrassed that you would notice." "There was no way:" "I am a virgin too." "That is what I was trying to tell you." "So why did you lie?" "To see if you would be encouraged to sleep with me." "Because I love you and I am too afraid to go to bed with you." "I love you too." "But I am a little afraid of going to bed with you." "There is only one way if losing it." "Was Dulcines here?" "Dulci..." "Ms Dulcinea?" "They told me she was in the town hall." "She just left." "What is it Mr Dirceu?" "Are you following you wife?" "I am very suspicious of her, your excellency." "But why is that, man?" "I received an... anonymous letter" "Anonymous letter?" "You fool... while you chase butterflies." "there is someone chasing you wife's butterfly..." "And does this letter talk about... someone else?" "It says it is an important politician from our town." "Yes." "Do you know?" "Nothing." "I know nothing." "By the way." "I don't want to get involved in this story." "What story Mr mayor?" "From my mouth you won't hear a word." "Ask someone else." "The whole town knows." "The whole town?" "Yes, I am even surprised that you..." "I did not say a word." "Did not say, but will do me the favor of saying." "You understand, it very unpleasant." "Ms Dulcinea is my political ally." "Mr Valdimir is our enemy." "Mr Vladimir?" "Well." "it is a double treason." "But don't think she is guilty." "No..." "He is... the one after her." "In the beginning she resisted, but.." "But?" "I'm just telling you this because it is in the mouth of the people." "Sooner or later you would end up hearing." "My God!" "I imagine your suffering." "It is a heavy blow." "It's hard, but you don't have to be so disconsolate." "You have to take it like a man." "Where is she?" "I cannot say." "it is another secretive meeting at the Trombeta." "Wait, Calm down." "I know in times like these advice is useless." "If I were in your position I would also lose my mind... and shoot the this home wrecker." "But yor better think a little before taking action." "Maybe you could work things out some other way." "I know you will say." "that it's a matter of honor." "And honor can only be washed with blood." "Alright, go and take care of it." "But you have to swear not to tell anyone that I was the one who told you." "They may think I want revenge from the opposition." "Iswear I don't..." "I will find you a place to hide." "Odorico might have you killed." "My life is already over." "You have to stay alive until tomorrow to confirm your deposition." "Otherwise no one will believe." "Mr Vladimir!" "Calm down mr Diceu" "Start praying." "But I am a comunist" "May God forgive me." "but you deserve it." "Me too." "Six shots." "At least one must have hit." "All six did." "On Mr Vladimir?" "No the wife." "The lady looked like a sieve." "Ms Dulcinea." "A partner in struggle." "a martyr in the fight for liberty." "We will sound the alarm." "push all the buttons of our inaugurational system." "It is unbelievable, this band has been rehearsing the funeral march... for almost two years and is still out oftune." "Hurray Mr Odorico Paraguaçu." "The inauguration of the cemetery Is a big victory... even if it cost the life of one of ours." "Poor Ms Dulcinea." "The work that overcomes time is built with blood and tears..." "It is a passage of my speech." "Where is the speech?" "Have I lost it?" "Oh it is here." "It will be a hit." "Hurray Odorico our mayor." "Hurray." "Where is the stiff?" "Excuse me?" "The dead, the cadaver, the deceased?" "They didn't bring it yet." "How come?" "At a time like this!" "Women take more time to get ready." "And you what are you doing here?" "Your place is at the cemetery?" "I came to guard alittle." "Go guard the grave." "Go see if everything is in order." "It was because of this that the cemetery was invaded." "Where did you get this revolver?" "I bought it a long time ago." "To shoot butterflies?" "Chief." "I came to file a complaint" "Ms Dorotea forgive me, I..." "I know how you are feeling, Mr Diceu." "I was also guilty for the death of my sister." "Is this gun yours?" "No." "I killed my sister with a pen and a piece of paper!" "I wanted you to find out Everything." "and make my sister end up her romance with Odorico!" "Mr Odorico?" "Yes." "You got it wrong." "The important politician os our town was Odorico, not Vladimir." "But he was the one who told me it was Mr Valdimir..." "Odorico?" "The Municipal Cemetery of Sucupira receives today its first tenant." "The works that overcome time are built with blood and tears." "Ah, very well." "Let's start the funeral." "There won't be a funeral." "Whats that?" "Are you trying to make jokes in a time like this?" "The remains of Dulcinea will go to the family mausoleum." "in the Cemetery of Santana." "My foot!" "I'll bury her by hook or crook!" "It's a family decision." "You can't do this to me." "You've done much worse." "It was because of you that Dirceu killed my sister." "I swear it wasn't." "Mr. Dirceu received an anonymous letter... exposing her affair with Dr. Vladimir." "The letter didn't mention Dr.Vladimir." "It didn't, but it said it was an important politician of our town." "The mayor, perhaps." "Nonsense, imagine if I would..." "It was I who wrote the letter" "You?" "Why?" "I was jealous of you and Dulcinea." "Well!" "Because of you jealous missive" "Mr Dirceu thought that her lover was Vladimir." "You made him think that so that she wouldn't know who her true lover was." "It was such a meaningless affair." "You are." "the only one for me." "There was Juju as well." "Yes, there was." "but you the only one." "in the figurative sense." "I know, I was the only one who saved herself for our wedding." "$o..." "Don't let this story separate us." "We are already separated by the death of my sister." "She was not the deceased that I wanted, I swear." "I wanted Vladimir." "That may be, but you will not take advantage of my sister's death" "I would have never expected this from you!" "A betrayal!" "It took me almost two years to arrange a deceased." "Two years with the opposition berating me." "And now that the deceased is ready to be dispatched, do you think I'll give it up on a silver platter?" "Never." "Nobody will take this deceased from me." "I never imagined Mr. Odorico... would lie... to me." "I didn't want to kill anybody." "I loved my wife." "It was Mr. Odorico who filled my head." "and it was him who gave me the gun..." "You must keep this statement in secrecy." "That's difficult Dr." "Bad news travel faster than a mad dog." "Mr Dirceu is insane." "What he did is proof of his mental collapse." "To kill one's wife, who was a saint, with six shots." "Only a madman does that." "Out Odorico' 'Down with the murder" "Sucupiranos, you know me!" "In my blood runs the blood of heroes and I wouldn't compromise myself with a cowardly crime." "where?" "You have to die!" "They've succeded in turning the people against me..." "But I'll recover still..." "If only something would happen." "Something that would put the people on my side again." "Something that." "You have to die!" "This is an assault." "An assault on my person." "This way I go from defendant to victim." "Like what happened with Colonel Lidario" "Exactly." "You, Captain Zeca Devil is the man I need to help me." "I kill you and it's all solved" "Whoa, hold on!" "If I die it won't be any good." "It has to be a simulated hit, ofcourse." "One that would disgust everyone!" "A brutal, cowardly assault." "I won't do it like that, no sir." "But no one would know it was you." "We'll say it was the opposition." "Better close the window, then." "And let's break some things, overturn some chairs..." "Spread some papers." "Murderer!" "Murderer!" "Murderer!" "Murderer!" "Ok..." "Now this is going to look like a fight." "It would be good for you to get a gun too." "Ah,yes..." "I shoot some rounds as well to make it seem like I reacted." "Mr Dr Colonel Mayor, I asked you to get a gun not to fire in the air... but to defend yourlself because I'm going to kill you." "What kind of game is this?" "This is no game." "A man who did what you did doesn't deserve to live." "If there are bullets in that gun shoot me." "because as my patron Father Ciço is my witness..." "I never killed anyone who didn't want to kill me first." "Go on, shoot!" "I'm not going to do this to you." "I have nothing against you..." "But I have against you." "I'm going to count to three." "Either you shoot me or you die anyway." "What about your vow?" "One." "But you swore not to kill anymore!" "Two." "Father Cicero will punish you!" "And three." "The assassination of Odorico Paraguagu was atributed to an extremist leftist group." "As if it was part of a vast plan to install communism in the country." "Under the pretext of saving the country from dictatorship... the armed forces imposed a military dictatorship." "He was a man of great valour, despite everything." "What a man!" "There should be more respect, despite everything." "Hurray Odorico Paraguaçu." "the Great." "the Maverick." "the Honest." "the Loyal... the Well-Loved!" "Hurray!" "Odorico Paraguaçu, here we are to bid the last goodbye to you... who were an example to all of us." "Only you, no one else could have the honor... of inaugurating the holy field, the distinguished accomplishment of your government... the great dream of your life." "Odorico, the Well-Loved!" "Your name, inscribed in this gravestone will never fade." "For those who die for the love of the people... forever loved... will remain." "forever alive... in its memory." "Hail to Dr Vladimir, a good man... a courageous citizen." "a leader revered by the people of Sucupira." "Today, April 1th, 1984 is a historical day." "One million people came to the streets demanding direct elections for president." "After twenty years of military domination," "We are reconquering democracy." "Will we know how to elect a good president?" "Only history will answer that." "But from now on history will be written by each one." "of the 120 million Brazilians." "After twenty years of a military regime we are reconquering democracy." "Brazilian National Anthem" "Subtitles by Sabino Ferrero (2011)"