Caraça, Heaven's Gate (1950)

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

In the first part of the plot, we had the arrival of new students on horseback in 1910; the story of Brother Lourenço; religious parties, toys, the escape of José Ribeiro, the problem student. In the second part, the lives of three former students, José Ribeiro, Ratinho and Father Francisco de Assis in Belo Horizonte and their return to Caraça in 1950 in a caravan of former students.

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