Film
Traffic
Portugal- Director
- João Botelho
- Year
- 1998
Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.
Top cast
Joaquim Oliveira
Jesus
Rita Blanco
Jesus' mother
Adriano Luz
Hélio, Jesus' father
Branca de Camargo
Redhead
João Perry
banker
Alexandra Lencastre
banker's lover
Maria Emília Correia
Amélia Castro, the General's wife
Canto e Castro
Hipólito, the older Priest
Mário Jacques
Rezende Castro, the General
Fernando Cabral Martins
Tadeu, the lawyer
Maria João Luís
Antónia Suzette Almeida, the sculptor
Rosa Lobato Faria
Mimi Furgel, the Countess
Sofia Leite
interior Designer
Bagão Félix
Paulo Bragança
Lino, the Younger Priest
Isabel de Castro
Casca in 'Julius Caesar' Play
Laura Soveral
Cassius in 'Julius Caesar' Play
São José Lapa
Clara d'Aveiro, the Actress
Directed by
João Botelho
Written by
João Botelho
Produced by
Paulo Branco