Yellow Cake
When radical science backfires, miners and researchers confront apocalypse in Tiago Melo’s pulpy, politically charged sci-fi fusing local myth, dark humour, working-class grit and radioactivity in Brazil’s Northeast.
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Cast
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When radical science backfires, miners and researchers confront apocalypse in Tiago Melo’s pulpy, politically charged sci-fi fusing local myth, dark humour, working-class grit and radioactivity in Brazil’s Northeast.
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- Release date
- Oct 22, 2026
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
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- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Brazil
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