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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
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Synopsis
A twelve-year old Brazilian boy who longs to see his team win out over Italy in the 1970 World Cup match finds his entire world turned upside down as his left-wing parents are forced into hiding and he is sent to live with his grandfather in Sao Paulo's Bom Retiro district. Though his country is being held in the grip of a military dictatorship and the war in Vietnam is raging abroad, young Mauro can't seem to think about anything else but the upcoming World Cup match between Brazil and Italy. If Jairzinho, Pele, and company can just win their third World Cup title, team Brazil will earn their third star on the strip - a feat that no other team in the history of the sport has ever managed to accomplish. When his Catholic mother and Jewish father are suddenly forced to go "on holiday," young Mauro is swept out of his middle class existence in Minas Gerais and taken to stay with his paternal grandfather in bustling Bom Retiro. A multi-ethnic district in which Jews, Arabs, and Greeks all live side-by-side, Bom Retiro begins to heat up with World Cup fever as things both at home and abroad all seem to be spiraling towards disaster. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide


Production Crew

Cassio Amarante Art Director
Debora Ivanov Associate Producer
Patrick Siaretta Associate Producer
Paulo Eduardo Ribeiro Associate Producer
Patricia Faria Casting
Adriano Goldman Cinematographer
Daniel Filho Co-producer
Fernando Meirelles Co-producer
Beto Villares Composer (Music Score)
Cristina Camargo Costume Designer
Cao Hamburger Director
Daniel Rezende Editor
Caio Guillane Executive Producer
Caio Gullane Executive Producer
Fabiano Gullane Executive Producer
Sonia Hamburger Executive Producer
Andre Montenegro Line Producer
Caio Guillane Producer
Caio Gullane Producer
Cao Hamburger Producer
Fabiano Gullane Producer
Cao Hamburger Screen Story
Claudio Galperin Screen Story
Anna Muylaert Screenwriter
Braulio Mantovani Screenwriter
Cao Hamburger Screenwriter
Claudio Galperin Screenwriter
Alessandro Laroca Sound/Sound Designer
Romeu Quinto Sound/Sound Designer
Year: 2008
Runtime: 104
Country: Brazil
MPAA Rating: PG
for thematic material, mild language, brief suggestive content, some violence and smoking
Category: Feature


Produced by
Caos Producoes
Dark Trick Films
Globo Filmes
Gullane Filmes
Miravista
Tapestry Films

Release
February 15, 2008 (USA - Limited)
by City Lights Pictures
Kino International
Touchstone Pictures