Dora, a former informant, generates a life with writings for illiterate migrants at the Rio Central Station. Anna and her young son Jose call her services to find Joseph’s father.
When Dora enters her small suburban apartment, she arranges the day’s letters, sends some, puts others and stores part of them in the tray. This is what happens in the letter of Josu. When her mother died, she was thrown by the bus, and Jose Dora asks to help her find her father. The first offended, Dora ends to agree with her to help …
Although my latest film was still there, which is back in the dark hours of dictatorship in Brazil, we return to the film with happiness that was blessed in 1998 on Walter Sam Church in 1998. And in what way!
Multilateral all over the world, Central Do Brasil received a gold bear at the Berlin Film Festival, a silver bear for the best actor Fernanda Montenegro; Two quotes from an Oscar or even the Golden Globe for the best foreign film, name a handful awards.
“Any Sensitive to Social Deprivation”
At this famous central station, which gives its name to the film title, millions of faces and stories are crossed, which is a metaphor for the whole country, with its diversity, its splendor and its misery. Both his strong faith and beyond it is a mirror towards mankind. Poor and weak, tempted by the miracles of a large city, was generally destroyed by indifference.
If the film does not get away with the emotional charge, it is already responsible for the beautiful embodiment of the very young Vinicius de Oliveira, the real child of the streets and shoes, which was first met at the Rio station. Absolutely perfect connection and alchemy in Brazil with Fernanda Chernogoria, a huge theater actor, and an absolute legend, regarded as the equivalent of Jean Moro. And which is still brave from above its 95th anniversary.
“I was approaching this woman to imagine she was very close to me. I was wondering if in the same situation I wouldn’t be like him or I wouldn’t stop the whole mercy on life” He said during the release of the movie. “This sense of mercy has always remained in the corner of my memory. Any sensitive creature is becoming social deprivation, saving at every price, violence and old age.”
In this sense, Central Do Brasil is definitely a work that is good for the heart and soul. To see Arte.tvAvailable until December 31, 2025.
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