Summary Jorginho, his white friend Rico, Lici and Paulinho are homeless best friends living in a slum in a hill in Copacabana. They spend their hopeless life playing with kite; trying to survive getting food from the street market or the fishermen; learning how to pickpocket; working on the streets polishing shoes. Rico escaped from an institution in Caxambu that symbolizes hell on Earth for them. When he gets ill, he decides to return to the place because he does not want to die on the streets. View more details
Directed : Arne Sucksdorff
Written : Arne Sucksdorff Flávio Migliaccio João Bethencourt
Stars : Leila Santos de Sousa Cosme dos Santos Josafá Da Silva Santos Toninho Carlos de Lima
Genres : Adventure Drama
Release date : Mar 28, 1965
Countries of origin : Sweden
Language : Swedish Portuguese
Filming locations : Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Production companies : Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
Summary Jorginho, his white friend Rico, Lici and Paulinho are homeless best friends living in a slum in a hill in Copacabana. They spend their hopeless life playing with kite; trying to survive getting food from the street market or the fishermen; learning how to pickpocket; working on the streets polishing shoes. Rico escaped from an institution in Caxambu that symbolizes hell on Earth for them. When he gets ill, he decides to return to the place because he does not want to die on the streets. View more details
Genres : Adventure Drama
Release date : Mar 28, 1965
Countries of origin : Sweden
Language : Swedish Portuguese
Filming locations : Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Production companies : Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
