Express Kidnapping

Sao Paulo, Brazil. Isabel, a 25-year-old girl, is kidnapped. The first ATM the criminals try to withdraw money from is broken. It’s almost 10:00pm. The kidnappers realize they will not be able to get to the next one on time. What was meant to be an express kidnapping becomes an all-night imprisonment.

Synopsis

An express kidnapping is a common type of criminal activity in Latin America. Criminals take someone to an ATM machine and force the victim to withdraw money from his or her bank account. In Brazil, ATMs started to remain unavailable from 10:00pm till 6:00am to prevent this crime.

Isabel gets out of a bar in a bohemian neighborhood. When she gets close to her car, Matheus, 34, and Japonês, 21, stop her and force her to get into her car. The guys are not friends. They are together to perform a series of kidnappings that night. Isabel is their first victim. They are nervous and so is Isabel.

The first ATM they go to is broken. It’s almost 10:00pm. Both guys realize they will not be able to reach the next ATM so they decide to keep her as a hostage until they find a working ATM in the morning.

The three of them spend the night going from one side to the other of the city, most of the time through avenues and neighborhoods on the outskirts, in order to gain time and to decide what to do with Isabel. A hostage in her own car, Isabel will have to negotiate her life with Matheus and Japonês throughout the entire night.

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a production Tangerina Entretenimento and Manjericão Filmes

coproduced by Globo Filmes

associate producers Guel Arraes and George Moura

feature film

fiction

90 min

in post-production

2018

Marina Ruy Barbosa as Isabel

Sidney Santiago Kuanza as Matheus

Daniel Rocha as the Japanese

Projota as Daniel

MC Linn da Quebrada as Marilda

Danilo de Moura as Pirraça

João Signorelli as Oswaldo

Malu Bierrenbach as Lorena

Tess Amorim, Jô Freitas and Marina Matheus as Isabel’s friends

Paula Pretta as Woman at ATM machine

André Whoong as Drug dealer

Che Morais as Edinho

directed by Tata Amaral

screenplay by Marton Olympio
Henrique Pinto
Tata Amaral

treatment by Tata Amaral
Henrique Pinto

produced by Tata Amaral and Rafaella Costa

executive producer Rafaella Costa

cinematography Carlos Zalasik

art director Vera Hamburger

editing Rodrigo Menecucci

sound editing Pedro Noizyman

original soundtrack André Whoong

sound João Godoy

casting Luciano Baldan

acting coach Fátima Toledo

costume designer Andrea Simonetti

makeup André Anastácio