This article is about the 2009 film. For the 2003 Hong Kong film 狙击目标, see Wayne Lai. For the upcoming film, see Assailant (film).
The Assailant (known as Besouro in Brazil) is a 2009 Brazilian action-drama film directed by João Daniel Tikhomiroff. The film is about Besouro Mangangá, a Brazilian Capoeirista from the early 1920s, to whom were attributed some heroic and legendary deeds.
The Assailant
DVD cover
Directed by
João Daniel Tikhomiroff
Written by
Patrícia Andrade Bráulio Tavares João Daniel Tikhomiroff
In 1924, almost forty years after slavery in Brazil was abolished, former black slaves are still oppressed by the rich. The resistance in the region of the Recôncavo Baiano is led by the elderly Mestre Alípio, a teacher of a martial art, capoeira, used by slaves to fight off abuse. Mestre Alípio has been threatened with death, so one of his best apprentices, Besouro, is appointed his bodyguard. However, Besouro spends all of his time playing capoeira in street circles, with the consequence that Alípio is killed by the police.
One day, Besouro is visited by a spiritual entity, Exu, who demands him to kneel. Trying to fight off the spirit, Besouro trashes a work fair, which causes the guards to chase him. He jumps into a river, after which he meets a spiritual teacher, Dona Zulmira, who gives him a choker that grants him corpo fechado, making him invulnerable to all attacks and weapons except by the tree known as ticum. With his new abilities, Besouro initiates a one-man sabotage campaign against the plantations of Coronel Venâncio, a powerful army officer who oppresses his people.
Besouro's efforts bring him the enmity of his childhood friend Quero-Quero, a fellow capoeirista and a collaborator of Venâncio who believes Besouro is only worsening the situation of the black people. Due to his stance, Quero-Quero's fiancee Dinorá leaves him, and instead goes with Besouro shortly after. A jealous Quero-Quero confronts Besouro in the jungle and they fight, but Besouro is victorious. To avenge his humiliation, Quero-Quero kills a man and incriminates Besouro, so the authorities will answer with greater force against him, and reveals to them that they can kill Besouro with a machete made of ticum wood.
Venâncio's men find Besouro and fight, but they are defeated. However, the Coronel brandishes a ticum machete and slashes him, finally killing Besouro. He then goes to Dinorá and tries to rape her, but she defeats him with capoeira and flees to mourn her lover.
It's later revealed Dinorá was pregnant with Besouro's child, who is now a little boy learning capoeira under Besouro's friend Chico. The boy chooses his father's name as his own, and when Coronel Venâncio passes by him in the street, he gives him a nasty stare, implying the boy will avenge his father some day.
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