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My Home Is Copacabana

1965 film

29 March 1965 (1965-03-29)

Running time

88 minutesCountrySwedenLanguageSwedish

My Home Is Copacabana (Swedish: Mitt hem är Copacabana) is a 1965 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Sucksdorff. It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival^[1] and the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.^[2] Sucksdorff won the award for Best Director at the 2nd Guldbagge Awards.^[3]

In 2019, Toninho's daughter Anna de Lima Fagerlind published a book titled "My Home is Not Copacabana" about her father's experience in connection with the filming. According to the book, Toninho was nine years old when Sucksdorff came to Rio and picked him to star in the movie. Toninho was presented as an orphan street child, which was not true as he had a mother and siblings and lived in a favela house overlooking Ipanema beach, and was flown to Sweden to promote the movie. While in Sweden, a wealthy family offered to adopt Toninho, and his mother reluctantly agreed having seen his brother slide into criminality.^[4]

Cast

Leila Santos de Sousa - Lici (as Leila)
Cosme dos Santos - Jorginho (as Cosme)
Josafá Da Silva Santos - Paulinho (as Josafá)
Toninho Carlos de Lima - Rico (as Toninho)
Herminia Gonçalves
Dirce Migliaccio
João Lucas
Flávio Migliaccio
Alvaro Peres
Andrey Salvador
Antonio Pitanga
Joel Barcellos
Alberto Carvalho
Walter Lira
Benedito de Assis
Anael Pereira
Allan Edwall - Narrator (voice)

References

^ "Festival de Cannes: My Home Is Copacabana". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 March 2009.
^ "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
^ "My Home Is Copacabana (1965)". Swedish Film Institute. 26 February 2014.
^ "Bokrecension: Mångbottnad debut om ett hem på jorden". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.