''Jean Charles'' is a 2009 British-Brazilian feature film depicting the life of

Jean Charles de Menezes Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean ...

, the Brazilian immigrant wrongly shot dead by the

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in London on 22 July 2005, after being mistaken for a terrorist. The film was directed by Henrique Goldman and received its international premiere at the

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Selton Mello Selton Figueiredo Mello (born 30 December 1972) is a Brazilian actor and director. Since his childhood, he acted on TV shows. Now he works on TV, movies and theater. Throughout his career, he developed a strong and solid experience in cinema, pr ...

stars as Jean Charles with many of the other roles played by the actual friends and family of Jean Charles de Menezes. Award winning director

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was an executive producer for the film.

Cast

as Jean Charles *

Vanessa Giácomo Vanessa Mendes da Silva Lima (born 29 March 1983), best known as Vanessa Giácomo, is a Brazilian actress and screenwriter. Career Giácomo made her television debut in ''Cabocla'' in 2004 at the age of 20, where she met and fell in love wit ...

as Vivian *

Marek Oravec Marek Oravec (born December 27, 1983) is an Austrian actor, living and working in London. Career At the beginning of his career the actor was cast in three major roles at the Murau festival Shakespeare in Styria performed in English: In 2006 he ...

as Iatzek * Luís Miranda as Alex * Patricia Armani as Patricia * Maurício Varlotta as Maurício *

Sidney Magal Sidney Magal, artistic name Sidney Magalhães (born 19 June 1950 in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and ...

as himself * Daniel de Oliveira as Marcelo *

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as Chuliquinha * Rogério Dionísio as Bisley * Julian Harries as English Man * Denise Stephenson as Female Police Liaison Officer * Christopher Pencakowski as Male Police Liaison Officer

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External links

* 2009 films 2000s Portuguese-language films 2000s English-language films Brazilian biographical drama films 2009 biographical drama films Films shot in London Films shot in Paulínia British biographical drama films Brazilian multilingual films British multilingual films 2000s British films {{2000s-UK-film-stub