Heiners Filmseiten – Captains of the Sands (en)

Captains of the Sands (Capitães da Areia)

German title: Capitães da Areia (Die Herren des Strandes)
Francaise title: Capitaines des sables
Russian title: Капитаны песка
Original title: Capitães da Areia

Youth drama – Brazil
Production year: 2010
Movie length: 96 minutes

Director: Cecília Amado, Guy Gonçalves
Writer: Cecília Amado, Hilton Lacerda, Jorge Amado
Cinematograph: Guy Gonçalves
Music: Carlinhos Brown

Movie description:

In Salvador de Bahia – Brazil, alive with the charm of the 1950s, a gang of street kids known as »Capitães da Areia« (Â»Captains of the SandsÂ«) are hunted like common criminals. As we draw closer, we see that they are just children, almost a hundred of them, completely abandoned. But they won’t be children for long: by the end of this odyssey, many will have become men. A year in the lives of these boys, in which they have incredible adventures, the most wonderful dreams, visit hell, discover sex, death, freedom!

Boy Actors