Lula, The Son of Brasil

Lula, Son of Brazil Portuguese Lula, o Filho do Brasil Portuguese pronunciationlul u fiu du baziw is a 2009 biographical Brazilian film based on the early life of former Brazilian president Luiz Incio Lula da Silva. Directed by Fbio Barreto, the film was released on January 1, 2010. Upon its release, Lula, Son of Brazil was the most expensive Brazilian film ever, with a budget of overmillion reais, being later surpassed by Nosso Lar. On September 23, 2010, the film was unanimously chosen by a Ministry of Culture commission as Brazils submission to the 83rd Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, despite not having been chosen to compete.

The film begins in October 1945 in Garanhuns, a municipality in the countryside of Pernambuco, when Luiz Incio da Silva, nicknamed Lula, is born as the seventh child of Dona Lindu and Aristides. Two weeks after his birth, Aristides moves to Santos, a coastal city in So Paulo, with Dona Mocinha, a cousin of Dona Lindu. Lindu raises Lulas siblings alone until December 1952, when the family moves to Santos to meet the patriarch. Upon their arrival, Dona Lindu discovers that Aristides had formed a second family with Dona Mocinha.Aristides two families live in the same house and, as time goes on, they struggle to survive. Lula and his siblings attend elementary school and work as street vendors. Later, Lindu leaves the alcoholic and abusive Aristides and moves with her children to So Paulo. Lula receives certification as a lathe operator and gets a formal job in the automobile industry, where he loses a finger in a press. This and his brother Zizas arrest lead him into trade union activism, which made him nationally known in a period when such activities were forbidden. Lula is incarcerated for his activities, just as his mother dies. ........

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