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The Official Story
Why this pick
Like Cao Hamburger's film, it lets a family drama absorb the moral pressure of a dictatorship, building emotion through intimate relationships rather than overt polemic.
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MOVIE2006 1h 44m BRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro in their Volkswagen. While traveling to São Paulo, the couple explains Mauro that they will travel on vacation and will leave Mauro with his grandfather Mótel. Daniel promises to return before the first game of the Brazilian National Soccer Team in the Cup. The boy is left in Bom Retiro, a Jewish and Italian neighborhood, and waits for Mótel in front of his apartment. When the next door neighbor Shlomo arrives, he tells the boy that Mótel had just had a heart attack and died. Alone and without knowing where his parents are, the boy is lodged by Shlomo and the Jewish community. Through the young neighbor Hanna, Mauro makes new friends, cheers for the Brazilian team and sees the movement of the police and militaries on the streets while waiting for his parents.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Germano Haiut
Shlomo
Michel Joelsas
Mauro
Paulo Autran
Mótel, Mauro's grandfather
Simone Spoladore
Bia - Mauro's mother
Daniela Piepszyk
Hanna
Liliana Castro
Irene
Caio Blat
Ítalo
Eduardo Moreira
Daniel - Mauro's father