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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

2006 · 103 min

A quietly moving coming-of-age story set against political repression, balancing warmth and fear through a child's eyes.

Directed by
Cao Hamburger
Genres
Drama
Starring
Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Paulo Autran
Overview
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.

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Directed by
Cao Hamburger
Genres
Drama
Starring
Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Paulo Autran
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • isolation
  • coming-of-age
  • politics
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Cao Hamburger
Written by
Bráulio Mantovani, Claudio Galperin, Anna Muylaert, Cao Hamburger
Starring
Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Paulo Autran, Simone Spoladore, Eduardo Moreira, Caio Blat, Daniela Piepszyk, Gabriel Eric Bursztein
Music
Beto Villares
Cinematography
Adriano Goldman
Runtime
103 min
Country
Brazil
Languages
Portuguese

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