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User Rating:
7.6/10   1,097 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Marçal Aquino (writer)
Heitor Dhalia (writer)
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Contact:
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Release Date:
23 March 2007 (Brazil) more
Genre:
Plot:
A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals--as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control. | full synopsis
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Awards:
11 wins & 11 nominations more
User Reviews:
Weird and Unpleasant Tale more (13 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)

Selton Mello ... Lourenço
Paula Braun ... Garconete
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Paulo Alves ... PM 1
Susana Alves ... Cadela In Pink
Roberto Audio ... Homem da Flauta
Flavio Bauraqui ... Homem da Caixa de Música
Boi ... Mendigo

Alice Braga ... Garçonete Dois
Calico ... Homem da Perna
Jorge Cerruti ... Homem do Olho de Vidro
Milhem Cortaz ... Encanador
Wolney de Assis ... Homem da Caneta
Estevan ... Homem do Autógrafo
Abrahão Farc ... Homem dos Soldadinhos
André Frateschi ... Homem do Vodu
Luciano Gatti ... Homem do Livro
Waldir Grillo ... Homem do Ancinho
Fabiana Guglielmetti ... Noiva
Lorena Lobato ... Mulher Casada
Sílvia Lourenço ... Viciada
Fernando Macário ... Entregador de Pizza

Leonardo Medeiros ... Jesus Kid
Martha Meola ... Secretária
Hossein Minussi ... Encanador
Morelli ... Homem do Violino
Morgani ... Homem Abertura
Ariel Moshe ... Homem das Cédulas
Alvaro Muniz ... Encanador
Lourenço Mutarelli ... Segurança
Dionísio Neto ... Homem dos Discos
Nivaldo ... Homem da Gaiola
Paulo César Peréio ... Pai da Noiva (voice)
Zé Pineiro ... Homem do Revólver
Augusto Pompeo ... Homem do Faqueiro
Negro Rico ... PM 2
Xico Sá ... Homem do Gênio da Garrafa
Mário Schoemberger ... Homem do Relógio
Gustavo Trestini ... Tenente
Tobias Vai Vai ... Caixa da Lanchonete
Pedro Vicente ... Homem dos Livros
Hugo Villavicenzio ... Homem do Gramofone
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Directed by
Heitor Dhalia 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Marçal Aquino  writer
Heitor Dhalia  writer
Lourenço Mutarelli  novel

Produced by
Francisco Accioly .... associate producer
Marcelo Araujo .... executive producer
Victor A. Biagioni .... assistant producer
Tomas Carvalho .... associate producer
Pedro Coutinho .... assistant producer
Marcelo Doria .... producer
Guilherme Fernandes .... associate producer
Lula Franco .... co-producer
Camila Groch .... line producer
Andrea Jundi .... assistant producer
Joana Mariani .... producer
Matias Mariani .... executive producer
Selton Mello .... associate producer
Gustavo Ribeiro .... post-production producer
Juliana Tardunho .... assistant producer
Rodrigo Teixeira .... executive producer
Rodrigo Teixeira .... producer
 
Original Music by
Apollo 
 
Cinematography by
José Roberto Eliezer 
 
Film Editing by
Pedro Becker 
Jair Peres 
 
Casting by
Chico Accioly 
 
Art Direction by
Guta Carvalho 
 
Costume Design by
Tica Bertani 
Patricia Zuffa 
 
Makeup Department
Siva Rama Terra .... makeup artist
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vera Egito .... second assistant director
Joana Mariani .... first assistant director
 
Art Department
Guilherme Carvalho .... assistant art director
Carla Meirelles .... art producer
Bia Pessoa .... art painter
Fernanda Pittelkow .... assistant art director
 
Sound Department
Guilherme Ayrosa .... sound
Thiago Bittencourt .... boom operator
Cauê Custódio .... adr recordist
Rodrigo Ferrante .... assistant sound
Rodrigo Ferrante .... sound re-recordist
Roger Hands .... foley artist
Alessandro Laroca .... supervising sound editor
Eduardo Virmond Lima .... sound effects editor
Fernando Lobo .... foley mixer
Antonio Mac-Dowell .... foley editor
Débora Opolski .... dialogue editor
André Tadeu .... sound re-recording assistant
Armando Torres Jr. .... sound re-recording mixer
 
Special Effects by
Kapel Furman .... armourer (as André Kapel)
Kapel Furman .... special effects (as André Kapel)
 
Visual Effects by
Marcelo Ferreira PeeJay .... digital effects artist
Rogério Marinho .... visual effects
Aruan Santos .... digital visual effects compositor
Robson Sartori .... visual effects coordinator
Lilian Stock Bonzi .... digital effects artist
Karina Vanes .... post-production coordinator
Mariana Zdravca .... post-production coordinator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Marcos Camargo .... still photographer
Rafael Vaz Dos Santos Farinas .... second assistant camera
 
Editorial Department
Alex Ferreira Barreiro .... assistant editor
 
Other crew
Rodrigo Diaz Diaz .... script supervisor
Leandro Scorsafava .... archive supervisor
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Drained (International: English title)
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Runtime:
112 min
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5 out of 8 people found the following review useful.
Weird and Unpleasant Tale, 3 May 2009
6/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lourenço (Selton Mello) is a dealer that buys belongings of needy people by a lower price to profit reselling them. He is a deranged, cold and selfish man that sees people like objects for sale, exploiting their needs. When he meets the waitress of a cheap diner, he falls in love for her butt and does not know what to do when she shows affection for him. He believes that the smell of the sewer strainer of his bathroom is blurring his mind and is a gateway to hell, but refuses to pay for its repair. When a junkie client abused by the power of his money reacts, the world of the controller Lourenço begins to fall apart.

"O Cheiro do Ralo" is a weird and unpleasant tale of the insanity process of a man completely obsessed by the power of his money. The Kafkaesque story is intriguing but unfortunately goes nowhere and has a pointless end. Selton Mello, as usual, has a magnificent performance but the situations are repetitive and this low-budget Brazilian movie is too long. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "O Cheiro do Ralo" ("The Smell of the Sewer Strainer")

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