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Central Station
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Central Station, released under the original title Central do Brasil, is a 1998 Brazilian-French drama directed and co-written by Walter Salles with João Emanuel Carneiro. Produced by Arthur Cohn, Robert Redford, and Salles, it was shot in Rio de Janeiro by cinematographer Walter Carvalho and scored by Jaques Morelenbaum and Antonio Pinto. Its Portuguese-language cast includes Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Matheus Nachtergaele, and Marília Pêra.
The film received the Golden Bear, a Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film, and National Board of Review awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress, and was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best International Feature Film. Rated R and running 111 minutes, it had a budget of 2,900,000 and revenue of 5,596,708.
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8.1An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Cast
- Fernanda Montenegro as Isadora 'Dora' Teixeira
- Vinícius de Oliveira as Josué Fontenele de Paiva
- Marília Pêra as Irene
- Othon Bastos as César
- Otávio Augusto as Pedrão
- Matheus Nachtergaele as Isaías Paiva
Themes
- rio de janeiro
- letter
- wilderness
- teacher
- orphan
- railroad
- alcoholic
- missing parent
- long lost relative
- realism
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Ratings
IMDb
8/10
50,302 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
Metacritic
80/100
- Year
- 1998
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 Oscars. 44 wins & 26 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Named after
- Central do Brasil
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Brazil
- Original language
- Portuguese
- Director
- Walter Salles
- Composer
- Antonio Pinto
- Producer
- Walter Salles
- Cinematographer
- Walter Carvalho
- Narrative location
- Rio de Janeiro
- Filming location
- Rio de Janeiro
- Duration
- 105
- FilmAffinity ID
- 731937
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.miramax.com/movie/central-station
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- publication date
- 1998-11-20
- title
- Central do Brasil
- distributed by
- Netflix
- described by source
- Abraccine Top 100 Brazilian films
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 80/100
- capital cost
- 2900000
- box office
- 22000000
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