Central Station (Estación Central do Brasil)
Directed by: Walter SallesCast list: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius de Oliveira
Country: Brazil, France
Year: 1998
Genres: Drama /
Runtime: 106 min.
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Dora, a dour old woman, works at a Rio de Janeiro central station, writing letters for customers and mailing them. She hates customers and calls them 'trash'. Josue is a 9-year-old boy who never met his father. His mother is sending letters to his father through Dora. When the mother dies in a car accident, Dora takes Josue on a trip to find his father.
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Subjects: Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / children, children’s rights / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human geography / anthropology, ethnography / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships /
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