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Central Station (Portuguese: Central do Brasil) is a 1998 road drama film directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra and Vinícius de Oliveira. The screenplay, adapted by João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein from a story by its director Walter Salles, tells the story of a young boy's friendship with a ...
Nov 20, 1998 · Central Station: Directed by Walter Salles. With Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra, Vinícius de Oliveira, Soia Lira. The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
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- Walter Salles
- 1998-11-20
Dec 25, 1998 · In this dog-eat-dog world, Dora ( Fernanda Montenegro) has a little stand in the rail station where she writes letters for people who are illiterate. A cynic, she destroys most of the letters. One day a mother and son use her services to dictate a letter to the woman's missing husband. Soon after, the mother is struck and killed by a bus.
Central Station. Director Salles transcends road-movie clichés and crafts a film that is as moving as it is universal. Bitter former schoolteacher Dora (Fernanda Montenegro) supports herself by ...
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- Fernanda Montenegro
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Dora, a dour old woman who hates customers and calls them 'trash,' works at a Rio de Janeiro central station writing and mailing letters for customers. Josue is a 9-year-old boy who never met his father. His mother is sending letters to his father through Dora. When she dies in a car accident, Dora takes Josue on a trip to find his father.
Brief Synopsis. Read More. A lonely former schoolteacher, Dora, ekes out a living writing and mailing letters for illiterate passersby in Rio's Central Station. Dora's lonely existence is shattered when one of her clients, a young mother is killed outside the station--her child, Josue, is left behind, devastated. Coming to te.
Nov 20, 1998 · A young boy's (Oliveira) mother is killed in front of Rio de Janeiro's Central Station. Homeless and with nowhere to turn, he is reluctantly befriended by a lonely and cynical woman (Montenegro). Resisting her initial impulse to make a quick profit off the child, she commits to returning him to his father in Brazil's remote Northeast. The trip becomes a quest for their own identities: one boy ...
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