My Home Is Copacabana
1965 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 243 VOTES · DIR. Arne Sucksdorff
Overview
Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by shining shoes, stealing, and cutting the strings of the kites to sell them later to others. Tired of life on the streets, one boy turns himself over to the police in hopes he will be sent to reform school in a last desperate attempt to survive. This feature from acclaimed Swedish director Arne Sucksdorff appeared at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.
Dialogue Timeline — 777 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:22 MY HOME IS COPACABANA
00:06:19 - Who said you could shoot the pigeons? - They're ours!
00:09:49 - You can eat cats. - I know a guy who ate a live cat.
00:12:38 - What? - Ground glass.
00:19:26 Ground glass, see. We'll cut down every kite.
00:22:45 - How much? - Only 400.
00:27:05 Move that out of the way, man.
00:30:52 That's why I don't buy a car.
00:35:19 Go on, man.
00:38:00 - Where's my money? - You took my money!
00:40:52 It goes up and up and up until it gets to those clouds up in the sky.
00:43:54 If you're really hungry, make a hungry face.
00:46:14 - What's 'the joker'? - It's the wallet.
00:50:42 - Shoeshine? - No, thanks.
00:52:50 Don't come here and shoot all this poverty here to send abroad.
00:54:45 I'll break your neck!
00:57:06 - Out of my face. - He's not afraid of you.
01:00:01 It's starting to get colder. We need things to keep us warm.
01:02:30 You're gonna do a little macumba yourself.
01:05:20 Good Lord!
01:10:36 Paulinho, you made that?
01:14:37 - Paulinho. - That's nonsense.
01:18:34 It's gonna look nice. I'll take it in here.
01:24:36 Subtitles and translation by Captions, Inc., Burbank
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed777
Dialogue density9.1 lines / min
First line00:00:22
Final line01:24:36
Production Record
DirectorArne Sucksdorff
LanguageSwedish
IMDb votes243