''My Home Is Copacabana'' ( sv, Mitt hem är Copacabana) is a 1965 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Sucksdorff. It was entered into the

1965 Cannes Film Festival The 18th Cannes Film Festival was held from 3 to 16 May 1965. Olivia de Havilland became the first woman president of the jury. The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film went to ''The Knack …and How to Get It'' by Richard Lester. The f ...

and the

4th Moscow International Film Festival The 4th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1965. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film ''War and Peace'' directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and the Hungarian film ''Twenty Hours'' directed by Zoltán Fábri. Jur ...

. Sucksdorff won the award for

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at the

2nd Guldbagge Awards The 2nd Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 1964 and 1965, and took place on 15 October 1965. ''Swedish Wedding Night'' directed by Åke Falck was presented with the award for Bes ...

. 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

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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.

Cast

* Leila Santos de Sousa - Lici (as Leila) *

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- Jorginho (as Cosme) * Josafá Da Silva Santos - Paulinho (as Josafá) * Toninho Carlos de Lima - Rico (as Toninho) * Herminia Gonçalves *

Dirce Migliaccio Dirce Migliaccio (30 September 1933 – 22 September 2009) was a Brazilian actress and sister of actor Flávio Migliaccio. Her films include '' My Home Is Copacabana and She also portraying the character Emília in Sítio do Picapau Amarelo in ...

* João Lucas *

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* Alvaro Peres * Andrey Salvador *

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Joel Barcellos Joel Dias Barcellos (27 November 1936 – 10 November 2018) was a Brazilian actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1955 and 1997. He starred in the 1974 film '' Sagarana: The Duel'', which was entered into the ...

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* Benedito de Assis *

Anael Pereira Haniel ( he, חַנִּיאֵל, ''Ḥannīʾēl'', "God is my grace"; cop, ⲁⲛⲁⲛⲓⲏⲗ ''Ananiēl''; ar, عنيائيل, '), also known as Hananel, Anael, Hanael or Aniel, is an angel in Jewish lore and angelology, and is often i ...

Allan Edwall Johan Allan Edwall (25 August 1924 – 7 February 1997) was a Swedish actor, director, author, composer and singer, best-known outside Sweden for the small roles he played in some of Ingmar Bergman's films, such as ''Fanny and Alexander'' (198 ...

- Narrator (voice)

References

External links

* * 1965 films 1965 drama films Swedish drama films 1960s Swedish-language films Swedish black-and-white films Films directed by Arne Sucksdorff Films whose director won the Best Director Guldbagge Award 1960s Swedish films {{1960s-Sweden-film-stub