Rio, 100 Degrees F
Rio, 40 Graus
Directed byNelson Pereira dos Santos
Written byArnaldo de Farias
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Produced byMário Barroso
Ciro Freire Cúri
Louis-Henri Guitton
Pedro Kosinski
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
StarringRoberto Batalin
Glauce Rocha
Jece Valadão
Music byRadamés Gnatalli
Alexandre Gnatalli
Cláudio Santoro
Release date
1955
Running time
100 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese

Rio, 100 Degrees F. (Portuguese: Rio, 40 Graus) is a 1955 Brazilian film written and directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos. It is dos Santos' first feature work, inspired by the Italian Neo-Realism, and is considered a precursor of the Cinema Novo movement.[1][2]

Synopsis

One Sunday, five boys from the favela go to different parts of the city to sell peanuts. Zeca, Sujinho, Jorge, Paulinho and Xerife interconnect the focused stories, covering five touristic points: Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Corcovado, Quinta da Boa Vista and Maracanã Stadium. In addition to trying to make a living, they decide to accumulate money to buy a soccer ball. Jorge also needs to sell enough to buy medicine for his sick mother. He goes to Copacabana, is bumped into and his can of peanuts falls into the sea. Without the goods to sell, Jorge starts begging and gets money, but other boys try to rob him, and when he gets rid of them, he is run over. Paulinho goes to Quinta da Boa Vista and his lizard, Catarina, escapes to the zoo. He retrieves it, but the guard of the place chases him away and throws his pet into a serpentarium. Resigned, Paulinho leaves for Maracanã, where he meets the rogue Miro [Jece Valadão (1930-2006)] and his partner Zé [Zé Kéti (1921-1999)] who, eager to enter the stadium and watch the game, take the whole boy's money and sell the remaining peanuts. Zeca, in turn, decides to go to Corcovado, but he is noticed by the explorer of minors who works there, an unscrupulous old man who chases him, forcing him to make a risky escape. Sujinho, on the other hand, with no money and no peanuts, is escorted to his house by a policeman. Sheriff does well in sales and manages to enter Maracanã, after circumventing security. He and Zeca end the day happy to have gotten the money.

Minor characters and other stories are told in parallel. The one that highlights the contrast in the careers of two players, Foguinho's revelation for football and Daniel's decadence. There is also the pregnancy of a migrant from the Northeast, whose boyfriend hesitates to make a commitment, and the arrival of a colonel from the interior to visit Corcovado.

Cast

  • Roberto Batalin .... Pedro
  • Glauce Rocha .... Rosa
  • Jece Valadão .... Miro
  • Ana Beatriz .... Maria Helena
  • Modesto de Souza .... landowner
  • Cláudia Morena .... Alice
  • Ivone Miranda
  • Antônio Novais
  • Jackson de Souza
  • Sady Cabral
  • Mauro Mendonça .... Italian tourist at the Sugarloaf Mountain

References

  1. Rodríguez, Paul A. Schroeder (2016-03-08). Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520963535.
  2. Rist, Peter H. (2014-05-08). Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810880368.
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