Claim: Rodrigo Santoro starred in Brainstorm.

Brainstorm -LRB- Bicho de Sete Cabeças -RRB- is a 2000 drama film directed by Laís Bodanzky based on the autobiographical book Canto dos Malditos by Austregésilo Carrano Bueno . The film was made through a partnership between Brazilian and Italian studios and starred Rodrigo Santoro , Othon Bastos and Cassia Kiss . The film tells the story of Neto , a young man who is admitted to a psychiatric hospital after his father discovers he is a user of marijuana . There , Neto is submitted to abuse . In addition to abuse by psychiatric hospitals , the film deals with the issues of drugs and relationships between fathers and sons .   Bodanzky read Carrano 's book in 1996 and , impressed by the theme , assigned Luiz Bolognesi to adapt it into a film and transpose its setting from the 1970s to the 1990s . In addition to keeping the film in the present , Bodanzky chose to make it a documentary-style film to create greater impact on the viewer . Bolognesi began writing in 1997 with the freedom to make changes to the original story . The film was shot in early 2000 in São Paulo , and was edited and finalized in Italy .   Brainstorm had its premiere at the Rio Film Festival in October 2000 . It subsequently received several awards and nominations both domestically and internationally ; among them , Best Actor at the Cartagena Film Festival , and Best Film at the Brasília Film Festival . Domestic critical response was generally favorable and focused on the acting and its themes . On the other hand , international critics were more mixed in their response .