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Once Upon a Time in Rio

25 Jul 2008
  • Brazil
117 mins
7.451
82 votes
  • Drama
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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...
  • Thiago Martins

    as Dé
  • Vitória Frate

    as Nina
  • Rocco Pitanga

    as Carlão
  • Paulo César Grande

    as Evandro
  • Cyria Coentro

    as Bernadete
  • Luana Schneider

    as Cacau
  • Fernando Brito

    as Beto
  • Rodrigo Costa

    as Dé Pequeno
  • Augusto Zacchi

    as Alvaro
  • Kikito Junqueira

    as Café Frio
  • Jonathan Azevedo

    as Meio-Quilo
  • Guti Fraga

    as Seu Armando

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