Once Upon a Time in Rio
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How...
Year: 2008
Genre: Drama
Studio: Globo Filmes, Lereby Produções, Conspiração Filmes
Director: Breno Silveira
Cast: Thiago Martins, Vitória Frate, Rocco Pitanga, Paulo César Grande, Cyria Coentro, Luana Schneider
Crew: Berna Ceppas (Music), Breno Silveira (Director), Rafael Ronconi (Art Direction), Domingos de Oliveira (Script Consultant), Eduardo Hartung (Editor), Cláudia Kopke (Costume Design)
Runtime: 117 minutes
Release: Jul 25, 2008
IMDb: 7.50/10 by 82 users
Popularity: 3
Country: Brazil
Language: Português
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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