Madame Satã (2002)

Director:

Karim Ainouz

Writers:

Karim Ainouz (writer)
Marcelo Gomes (writer)
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Release Date:

8 November 2002 (Brazil)

Genre:

Biography | Drama

Plot:

Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.

Plot Keywords:

Gay Interest | Sex | 1930s | Anger | Anti Racism

Awards:

21 wins & 14 nominations

Cast

Lázaro Ramos	...	João Francisco dos Santos / Madame Satã
Marcelia Cartaxo	...	Laurita
Flavio Bauraqui	...	Tabu
Fellipe Marques	...	Renatinho
Renata Sorrah	...	Vitória
Emiliano Queiroz	...	Amador
Giovana Barbosa	...	Firmina
Ricardo Blat	...	José
Guilherme Piva	...	Álvaro
Marcelo Valle	...	Delegado
Floriano Peixoto	...	Gregório
Gero Camilo	...	Agapito
Gláucio Gomes	...	Gordo no Danúbio (Fat man)
Orã Figueiredo	...	Policial
Karine Teles
Sacha Amback	...	Sambista Danúbio 1
Marcos Roberto Correia	...	Sambista Danúbio 2
Edson Menezes	...	Sambista Danúbio 3
Mauro Marques	...	Garçom Danúbio (Waiter)
George Bezerra	...	Ajudante Amador
Suzana Sanchez	...	Harpista cabaret lux
Ubiratan Rodrigues	...	Violinista cabaret lux
Lincoln Oliveira	...	Porteiro high life (Doorkeeper)
Anderson Lugão	...	Cliente Laurita
Luís Ronaldo	...	Vendedor de cocadas
Valente	...	Carcereiro
Eduardo Coutinho	...	Voz do juiz (voice)
Alexandre Saggese	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Ana Paula Cardoso	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Flavia Pamplona	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Hsu Bun Lung	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
João Soares	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
João Soncini	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Isabela Monteiro de Castro	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Leandro Freitas	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Licko Tuale	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Marcelo Melo	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Marcos Pedroso	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Nathalio Maria	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Nino Rodrigues	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Paula Damasceno	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Rosa Duat	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Sandro Matos	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Sophie Bernard	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Olga Machado	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
William Anaki	...	Frequentador Danúbio (Customer)
Aluisio Abranches	...	Participante do concurso de fantasia
Bruno Balthazar	...	Participante do concurso de fantasia
Cláudio Assis	...	Participante do concurso de fantasia
Erik Henckel	...	Participante do concurso de fantasia
Erlon Cherque	...	Participante do concurso de fantasia
Giovanni Garça	...	Participante do concurso de fantasia
Márcio André da Silva	...	Participante do concurso de fantasia
Roberto Iglesias	...	Participante do concurso de fantasia
Wanderley Nascimento	...	Participante do concurso de fantasia

Directed by
Karim Ainouz

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Karim Ainouz		writer
Marcelo Gomes		writer
Sérgio Machado		writer
Mauricio Zacharias		co-writer

Produced by
Marc Beauchamps	....	producer
Laurent Bocahut	....	associate producer
Philip Brooks	....	associate producer
Isabel Diegues	....	producer
Vincent Maraval	....	producer
Mauricio Andrade Ramos	....	producer
Donald Ranvaud	....	producer
Juliette Renaud	....	producer
Walter Salles	....	producer
Dominique Welinski	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Sacha Amback
Marcos Suzano

Cinematography by
Walter Carvalho

Film Editing by
Isabela Monteiro de Castro

Casting by
Luiz Henrique Nogueira

Production Design by
Marcos Pedroso

Costume Design by
Rita Murtinho

Makeup Department
Sonia Penna	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Marcello Maia	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Daniela Braga	....	first assistant director
Anne Pinheiro Guimarães	....	second assistant director
Ana Ribeiro	....	third assistant director

Sound Department
Aloisio Compasso	....	sound
Marcel Costa	....	boom operator
Dominique Hennequin	....	sound mixer
Stéphane Thiébaut	....	sound re-recording mixer
Christophe Vingtrinier	....	sound mixer
Waldir Xavier	....	sound editor

Special Effects by
Sergio Farjalla Jr.	....	special effects

Editorial Department
Marcelo Pedrazzi	....	assistant editor
Alexandre Saggese	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Daniela Carvalho	....	post-production office production assistant
Erica Coelho	....	set manager
Cindy Duarte	....	set assistant
Sergio Farjalla Jr.	....	weapons master

Thanks
Todd Haynes	....	thanks
Wieland Speck	....	thanks

Production Companies

• VideoFilmes
• Dominant 7
• Lumière
• Wild Bunch

Distributors

• Artkino Pictures (2004) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Impuls Home Entertainment (2005) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• Madman Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
• Madman Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Mars Distribution (France)
• Mongrel Media (Canada)
• PRO-FUN media Filmverleih (2005) (Germany) (all media)
• Paradiso Entertainment (2002) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (200?) (Netherlands) (video)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2005) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2005) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Vega Distribution (2005) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Wellspring Media (2003) (USA) (subtitled)

Runtime:

105 min | Argentina:105 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) | France:97 min (Cannes Film Festival)

Country:

Brazil | France

Language:

Portuguese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | Hungary:16 | Canada:18A | France:-12 | Netherlands:16 | USA:Unrated | Mexico:C | Argentina:18 | Brazil:16

Company:

VideoFilmes

Movie Connections:

References A Rainha Diaba (1974)

Soundtrack:

Tango romantico

True meaning of `Fierce'

This is like watching a Jean Genet novel translated into Portuguese and relocated to Brazil, circa 1930. All the characters are present: thieves and whores, drag queens and murders, love and hate. Lázaro Ramos, as Madame Satã, gives a wonderful performance that gives real meaning to the word `fierce';a complicated man whose only possible response to a world that hates him is to rage against it. And what rage! And what love! The family he pieces together, as wounded and damaged as he is, provides the only constant in a life that poverty and exile have doomed to chaos. Karim Ainouz, the director, must be congratulated on this courageous film.