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Dora has a table where she works writing letters for illiterate people in Rio's main train station, known as "Central
do Brasil" for the railroad's name.
One of Dora's clients is Ana, who comes with her nine-year-old son Josué, who dreams of meeting the father he has never
known. On her way out of the station, Ana is hit and killed by a car, leaving her son abandonned. Almost against her will,
Dora ends up taking care of the boy. She ends up taking him to the interior of Northeastern Brazil on a search for Josué's
father. As they travel together in buses, hitch-hiking on trucks, or on foot, the two characters--so different from each other--become
closer...
The film is a voyage of discovery, both of Brazil and of two human hearts. Walter Salles, Jr. brings a master story-teller's
touch and an amazing sense of location and space to this remarkably beautiful and moving film, which won the "Golden
Bear" at the 1998 Berlin International Film Festival.
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Director: Walter Salles
Cast:
Fernanda Montenegro (Dora), Marília Pêra (Irene), Vinicius de Oliveira (Josué), Sôia Lira (Ana), Othon Bastos (Cezar),
Matheus Nachtergaele (Isaías), Caio Junqueira (Moisés), Otávio Augusto (Pedrão), Stella Freitas (Yolanda)
Producers: Arthur Cohn, Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre
Executive Producers: Elisa Tolomelli, Lillian Birnbaum
Associate Producers: Paulo Brito, Donald Ranvaud
Screenplay: João Emanuel Carneiro, Marcos Bernstein
Based on an original idea by Walter Salles
Director of Photography: Walter Carvalho
Editors: Isabelle Rathery, Felipe Lacerda
Art Direction: Cássio Amarante, Carla Caffé
Music: Antônio Pinto, Jacques Morelembaum
Sound: Jean-Claude Brisson
Co-producers: Riofilme, Vídeofilmes, MACT
Distributor (theatrical): Riofilme
Distributor (video): Riofilme and Consórcio Europa
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