The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation Portuguese O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saram de Frias is a 2006 Brazilian drama film directed by Cao Hamburger. The screenplay, which took four years to be completed, was written by Hamburger, Adriana Falco, Claudio Galperin, Anna Muylaert and Brulio Mantovani.

The story takes place entirely during a few months in 1970, in the city of So Paulo. Mauro, a 12yearold boy, is suddenly deprived of the company of his young parents, Bia and Daniel Stein, who are political activists on the run from the harsh military government, which was strongly repressing leftists all over the country. Against this backdrop of fear and political persecution, the country is at the same time bursting with enthusiasm for the coming World Cup, to be held in Mexico, the first one to be transmitted live via satellite.Unable to take care of their only child, the Steins, who live in Belo Horizonte, drive all the way to So Paulo to deliver the boy to his paternal grandfather, Mtel, who is a barber. To their son, they say they will travel on vacation and promise to return for the World Cup games. Unfortunately, however, the grandfather dies on the same day the boy arrives, and he is left clueless and without support in Bom Retiro, a workingclass neighborhood inhabited mainly by Jewish people, many of whom speak Yiddish, an unknown language to the boy. As his father is Jewish, the closeknit Bom Retiro community rally in support of the child and Shlomo, a solitary elder and religious Jew who was a close neighbor and friend of Mauros grandfather, assumes the care of Mauro. ........

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