Central Station
Between hope and solitude, two lives cross and reinvent themselves
Production
Genre
Budget
$2 900 000
Box office
$5 596 708
Director
Actors
Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra, Othon Bastos, Otávio Augusto, Matheus Nachtergaele, Caio Junqueira, Stela Freitas, Maria Menezes, Sergio Kato
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Walter Salles, Arthur Cohn, Jack Gajos, Paulo Carlos De Brito, Martine De Clermont-Tonnerre, Elisa Tolomelli, Donald Ranvaud, Thomas Garvin, Lillian Birnbaum
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Cassio Amarante, Carla Caffé
Audition
Sérgio Machado
Editing
Felipe Lacerda, Isabelle Rathery
Whole Team (38)
Whole Team (38)
Short description
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
What's left behind the scenes
- By ‘Central Station’ in Brazil, people usually mean the main railway station in Rio de Janeiro, which connects this metropolis with other major cities in the country. Its full name is Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil.
- All scenes of the film were shot in chronological order.
- When actress Fernanda Montenegro set up her table at the station, strangers began approaching her with requests to write letters for them, just as it happens in the film itself. Some of the footage shot during these moments was included in the film.
- When Dora comes home and watches television, bought with the money from the sale of Jozue, a popular Brazilian television program called "Willing to Do Anything for Money" is on.
- Vinicius de Oliveira received a role for which 1500 young actors auditioned.
- Walter Salles, upon arriving at the airport, saw a boy who wanted to shine his shoes, but he refused, as he was wearing sneakers. Then the boy asked for money, but Salles refused again. Salles offered the boy an audition. He initially refused, saying he was very poor, had never acted, and hadn't even seen a movie, but Salles persuaded him. The boy’s name was Vinicius de Oliveira.
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