O Ano em Que Meus Pais Sairam de Férias
| The Year My Parents Went on Vacation | |
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| Directed by | Cao Hamburger |
| Produced by | Cao Hamburger Fabiano Gullane Caio Gullane |
| Written by | Cao Hamburger Adriana Falcão Claudio Galperin Bráulio Mantovani Anna Muylaert |
| Starring |
Michel Joelsas Germano Haiut Daniela Piepszyk Caio Blat Liliana Castro |
| Music by | Beto Villares |
| Edited by | Daniel Rezende |
| Distributed by |
Buena Vista International (Brazil) City Lights Pictures (US) |
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103 minutes |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese Yiddish |
| Budget | US$1,500,000 |
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Portuguese: O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias) is a 2006 Brazilian drama film directed by Cao Hamburger. The screenplay, which took four years to be completed, was written by Hamburger, Adriana Falcão, Claudio Galperin, Anna Muylaert and Bráulio Mantovani.
It was submitted by the Ministry of Culture for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This choice was unexpected, since it was thought that José Padilha's Elite Squad would be submitted.
The story takes place entirely during a few months in 1970, in the city of São Paulo. Mauro, a 12-year-old boy, is suddenly deprived of the company of his young parents, Bia and Daniel Stein, who are political activists on the run from the harsh military government, which was strongly repressing leftists all over the country. Against this backdrop of fear and political persecution, the country is at the same time bursting with enthusiasm for the coming World Cup, to be held in Mexico, the first one to be transmitted live via satellite.
Unable to take care of their only child, the Steins, who live in Belo Horizonte, drive all the way to São Paulo to deliver the boy to his paternal grandfather, Mótel, who is a barber. To their son, they say they will travel on vacation and promise to return for the World Cup games. Unfortunately, however, the grandfather dies on the same day the boy arrives, and he is left clueless and without support in Bom Retiro, a working-class neighborhood inhabited mainly by Jewish people, many of whom speak Yiddish, an unknown language to the boy. As his father is Jewish, the close-knit Bom Retiro community rally in support of the child and Shlomo, a solitary elder and religious Jew who was a close neighbor and friend of Mauro's grandfather, assumes the care of Mauro.
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