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Bom Mesmo É Carnaval

1962 · 87 min

A breezy, good-natured farce full of carnival energy and small-town scheming, easy to enjoy without much thought.

Directed by
J.B. Tanko
Genres
Music, Comedy
Starring
Zé Trindade, Jaime Costa, Anilza Leoni
Overview
Colonel Polidoro is the political chief of the small town of Passaroca. Near the city hall elections, he decides to help his candidate by setting up an adult literacy course. For this, he needs to find a competent teacher and decides to go to Rio de Janeiro with this function. False moralist that is, ends up falling in the revelry, meets a beautiful dancer and invites the girl to spend the carnival on his farm. Drunk, he confuses the addresses and causes his driver to take the dancer in place of the teacher to Passaroca, which will cause a lot of confusion.

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Directed by
J.B. Tanko
Genres
Music, Comedy
Starring
Zé Trindade, Jaime Costa, Anilza Leoni
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • politics
  • deception
  • identity
  • music
Places
  • small town
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
music, comedy
Directed by
J.B. Tanko
Written by
Meira Guimarães, J.B. Tanko
Starring
Zé Trindade, Jaime Costa, Anilza Leoni, Alberto Pérez, Renato Restier, Tutuca, Darcy de Souza, Nelly Martins
Runtime
87 min
Country
Brazil
Languages
Portuguese

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