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. –IMDb
Carlos Imperio Hamburger (b. 1962, São Paulo) (or Cao Hamburger) is a Brazilian screenwriter and director of movies and TV. He is the creator of the Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum (Castle Rá-Tim-Bum) series of programs for children in the TV Cultura of São Paulo, which gave origin to a successful movie with the same title. Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum was one of the most successful children shows to air in Brazil. He directed in 2006 another successful film, O Ano em Que Meus Pais Sairam de Férias (The Year My Parents Went on Vacation), partly based on his childhood memories.
Hamburger was also one of two creative directors for Rio’s contribution to the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
Cao is the son of physicists and University of São Paulo professors Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger, of Jewish-German origin, and Amélia Imperio Hamburger, of Italian origin. —Wikipedia
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