O Mistério do Samba
2008 · 88 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 74 VOTES · DIR. Carolina Jabor, Lula Buarque de Hollanda
Overview
A film that depicts the everyday life and the beauty of Portela’s Old Folk – a group of veteran samba musicians who belong to one of Rio’s most revered samba schools, the one with the most first places and accolades in Rio’s Carnaval pageant. These old gentelmen’s and ladies’ musicality and poetry are unveiled through their simple, but rich and meaningful, every day life in Oswaldo Cruz, a quaint neighborhood in Rio’s North Zone, that serves both as set and as a main character in this story.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,174 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:57 "THE MISTERY OF SAMBA"
00:06:02 Everyone came to see them
00:11:08 with acavaquinho...
00:13:37 I think it was fate, and so good for me.
00:16:38 And
00:20:26 I met Osmar.
00:23:25 He never knew what it meant!
00:27:10 Play that song I was going to record.
00:30:06 Melancholy fills my eyes
00:33:52 to know where they came from.
00:38:22 I missed you.
00:41:25 Whose case is this?
00:43:58 Why are you so blue?
00:48:59 Go and tell the one I once loved
00:51:53 They fired me for messing around;
00:55:40 Paulinho said, "He is Argemiro do Pandeiro.
00:59:12 I ignored her and left.
01:02:03 Yet they all disappeared
01:05:29 Now I nurture my pain alone
01:08:15 When I was young, I wanted to have fun and enjoy life.
01:11:53 Now you are going to learn how to dance the old style.
01:16:05 I'm no one without you
01:21:09 but that 's not what matters the most.
01:28:44 Come on, brother Casquinha.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,174
Dialogue density13.3 lines / min
First line00:00:57
Final line01:28:44
Production Record
DirectorCarolina Jabor, Lula Buarque de Hollanda
LanguagePortuguese
IMDb votes74