1 Mar 2000
Director: Walter Salles
Brazil, France
1988
115 min
This is the story of one boy’s search for his father and one woman’s search for a heart. Dora, a dour former school teacher, makes a living by writing letters for illiterate people passing through Rio de Janeiro’s main train station, Central do Brasil. Workers from the impoverished suburbs commute to the city through the station and flock to Dora to contact lost family members, send love letters or simply relate details of their lives. Among her clients are Ana and her nine-year-old son Josué, who desperately wants to meet the father he has never seen.