The film paved the ways for new thinking about psychiatric institutions in Brazil which led to a law approved by Congress.
Musician and actor Seu Jorge (who played Mané Galinha in City of God) was invited by director José Padilha to act as one of the antagonists, Beirada; Maria Ribeiro is also back as Roseane, who is no longer married to Nascimento, but to a left wing Congressman.
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In 1950 he was elected a UDN party representative for the state of Rio in the Chamber of Deputies.