Release Date

25 Jul, 2008

Runtime

01:57: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How...

Original Title

Era uma Vez...

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Actors

Thiago Martins

Vitória Frate

Rocco Pitanga

Paulo César Grande

Cyria Coentro

Luana Schneider

Fernando Brito

Rodrigo Costa

Augusto Zacchi

Kikito Junqueira

Jonathan Azevedo

Guti Fraga

Luciano Vidigal

Benjamin Finkielman

Guilherme Coutinho

Marcelo Cortez

Marcos Pitombo

Kay

Felipe Adler

Andressa Pinto

Babu Santana

Crew

Breno Silveira

Berna Ceppas

Rafael Ronconi

Domingos de Oliveira

Breno Silveira

Eduardo Hartung

Cláudia Kopke

Patrícia Andrade

Patrícia Andrade

Paulo Lins

Dudu Miranda

Paulo Brakarz

Ilana Brakarz

Renata Brandão