In the Name of the Father
Drama
4.773/10
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|pt
|17 min
Release Date: 2002-02-01
Overview - The short film depicts the life of a boy who is constantly sexually abused by his father. Leonardo Miggiorin brilliantly plays the role of this boy, who belongs to a poor and unstructured family.
Production Companies
Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo
User Reviews
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superfluosity
10/10
I first watched this in 2003 or 2004. I rediscovered this 17 minute version recently. There were more scenes when I first watched it; an additional, slightly longer shower scene, a scene of the father **not** locked out of the son's bedroom, a scene in which the boy deliberately withholds food from the dog, and a scene including a suspicious but ultimately satisfied police inspector near the end. ...
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