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My Home Is Copacabana

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Original title

Mitt hem är Copacabana

Year

1965

Running time

88 min.

Country

Sweden

Director

Arne Sucksdorff

Screenwriter

João Bethencourt, Flávio Migliaccio, Arne Sucksdorff

Cast

Music

Radamés Gnatalli

Cinematography

Arne Sucksdorff

Producer

Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Genre

Adventure. Drama | Poverty

Synopsis

Jorginho, his white friend Rico, Lici and Paulinho are homeless best friends living in a slum in a hill in Copacabana. They spend their hopeless life playing with kite; trying to survive getting food from the street market or the fishermen; learning how to pickpocket; working on the streets polishing shoes. Rico escaped from an institution in Caxambu that symbolizes hell on Earth for them. When he gets ill, he decides to return to the place because he does not want to die on the streets.

Awards: 1965: Guldbagge Awards (Sweden): Best Direction

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My Home Is Copacabana

1965

Arne Sucksdorff