Lucio Flavio (film)

Lucio Flavio[1] (Portuguese: Lúcio Flávio, o Passageiro da Agonia) is a 1977 Brazilian film directed by Héctor Babenco based on the book of the same name by José Louzeiro, who co-wrote the screenplay.

It stars Reginaldo Faria as Lúcio Flávio, a famous bandit in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s.

[2] Babenco did not want to limit the story to Lúcio Flávio, and stated it was also a film about Esquadrão da Morte, a death squad from the 1960s.

[4] It debuted on the commercial circuit with 100 copies, breaking King Kong's 81, on February 27, 1978.

[3][4] As of November 2014, Lucio Flavio was the sixth most-watched Brazilian film with an audience of 5,401,325.