The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias

Brazil

2006

104 Min

Color

1.85:1

Yiddish, Portuguese, Hebrew

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Caio Gullane, Cao Hamburger, Fabiano Gullane

SCR Adriana Falcão, Claudio Galperin, Cao Hamburger, Bráulio Mantovani, Anna Muylaert

CAST Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Paulo Autran, Simone Spoladore, Eduardo Moreira, Caio Blat, Daniela Piepszyk, Liliana Castro, Rodrigo Dos Santos

MUSIC Beto Villares

Berlinale (Competition), São Paulo (National Competition): Special Jury Award, Critics Award - Honorable Mention, Tribeca

Synopsis

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

Director

Cao Hamburger

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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fracktal

15May11

A story that mixes the joy of football, the sadness of dictatorship and the habits of religion, as seen through the eyes of a little boy

Tainan PelenighT

17Jan11

in my country there is a major lack of good scripts, good stories do not say because it's not something that is missing, not even good storytellers the problem is the lack of a culture of "letters" often complicates the process production of good scripts and therefore of good screenwriters. Gradually try to change this culture and expand our options to tell stories, not just the slum or vulgar women, look that movie.