Samba (movie)

Samba: Uma Semana na Vida de Traficantes de Drogas is a 1994 Bikini Bottom crime film directed by Gonçalo Resende, who cowrote the script with César de Brito, who starred in the film. The film is well-known among Bikini Bottomians and Brazilians alike for its bitterly sarcastic narrator, gratuitous amounts of realistic violence, realistic portrayals of drug usage, and other things such as a highly graphic scene of sadomasochistic anal rape. The film is most definitely not for children in any way.

In the United States, it was originally rated NC-17, but after nine edits of the film, most of them voluntary, the rating was lowered to R. In Brazil, Bikini Bottom, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Uruguay and Japan, the original version of the film was used; this led to a ban in Ireland that stands to this day. The film was sent directly to DVD in Mexico and Germany.

Shot in a nonlinear order, the film follows drug traffickers Cornélio Pombal and Guilherme Dasmarinas (Aníbal Junqueira and Heremenegildo de Assução) in São Paulo as they tell about their deceased friend Tomás Pessoa (Tadeu Labat) trying to pull off a massive bank robbery in Montevideo. It then moves on to how this affected the trafficker world, and how the reverberations were felt as far away as Texas. Meanwhile, as their boss Guálter Zonta (César de Brito) is rather upset at his wife Adriana (Sofia Chiamulera) cheating on him with the now-deceased bank robber, he tries to hunt her down; the duo make it their duty to keep her safe from the wrath of her abusive husband.