Mitt hem är Copacabana (1965)

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Country: Sweden
Genres: Adventure, Drama
Release: 1965-03-29
Director: Arne Sucksdorff
Writers: Arne Sucksdorff , Flávio Migliaccio , João Bethencourt
Language: Swedish | Portuguese
Stars: Leila Santos de Sousa , Cosme dos Santos , Josafá Da Silva Santos , Toninho Carlos de Lima , Herminia Gonçalves , Dirce Migliaccio , João Lucas , Flávio Migliaccio , Alvaro Peres , Andrey Salvador
Runtime: 88 min
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations
AKA: My Home Is Copacabana , Chez moi à Copacabana (France, French Republic) , 마이 홈 이즈 코파카바나 (Korea) , Mit hjem er Copacabana (Denmark) , Mitt hem är Copacabana , Mitt hjem er Copacabana (Norway) , Fábula (Brazil) , My Home Is Copacabana (United Kingdom) , Mitt hem är Copacabana (Sweden) , My Home Is Copacabana (Spain)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0059456