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!
00:09:44 - Can you eat vultures? - Maybe.
00:12:30 - Why? You gonna fix kite duels? - Yeah, but we don't have razor blades.
00:19:13 Leave him alone.
00:22:33 The black kid's cutting down all our kites.
00:26:42 - No, nothing. - That's the end of that.
00:29:53 I'm the one who cut them down. It makes me itch too.
00:33:53 He is my defense - It has to die.
00:37:29 Cheat a bandit like him?
00:40:21 who was beginning to understand, how serious things were.
00:43:26 You little liar.
00:45:40 and the car went into the river. And both of 'em...
00:49:19 Come on, man. That's not American, it's Turkish.
00:52:18 It doesn't seem like it. You're not Brazilian.
00:54:07 Come on, cut it out.
00:56:36 - What's wrong? - Let's forget it.
00:58:34 - What? - He doesn't mind going to Caxambu.
01:01:35 - I can't sleep like this. - Then come and give me a hand.
01:04:12 - Man, look at this. - Rico, put it back.
01:07:46 God doesn't exist.
01:13:01 This is great.
01:17:22 You know what Feijoada gave me? Two packs of cigarettes.
01:20:39 Rico.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed777
Dialogue density9.1 lines / min
First line00:00:22
Final line01:20:39
Production Record
DirectorArne Sucksdorff
LanguageSwedish
IMDb votes243