ENEA

Enea Sala’s boyhood portrayal of Edgardo segues to the young adult played by Leonardo Maltese, who believably retains something innocent yet troubled as we grapple with his fate.

On a stage featuring Brazilian states’ flags and in a crowded room packed with Indigenous people, some of whom were wearing traditional headdresses and black body paint, law professor Eneá de Stutz e Almeida knelt before Indigenous leader Djanira Krenak.

Enea combed through the archives of local papers for news of its whereabouts.

By the 1980s, it had become their Holy Grail, and Bob Enea — nephew of Tony Berry, who piloted the boat through the Sea of Cortez — was their knight errant.

Enea Sala plays the young Edgardo, whom Bellocchio found after a long casting process.