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Portuguese | Central do Brasil |
Directed by | Walter Salles |
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Story by | Walter Salles |
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Cinematography | Walter Carvalho |
Edited by | Felipe Lacerda |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
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Language | Portuguese |
Budget | $2.9 million[2] |
Box office | $22 million[3] |
Central Station (Portuguese: Central do Brasil) is a 1998 road drama film directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra and Vinícius de Oliveira. The screenplay, adapted by João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein from a story by its director Walter Salles, tells the story of a young boy's friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman.
Montenegro's performance earned her international critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress (becoming the first and to date only Brazilian actress to ever be nominated in the lead actress category), while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.[4]
In 2015, the Brazilian Film Critics Association aka Abraccine voted Central Station the 11th greatest Brazilian film of all time, in its list of the 100 best Brazilian films.[5]