My Home Is Copacabana
My Home Is Copacabana (Swedish: Mitt hem är Copacabana) is a 1965 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Sucksdorff. It stars Leila Santos de Sousa and was written by João Bethencourt and Flávio Migliaccio. The film runs 88 minutes and is in Swedish.
The movie was entered into the Cannes Film Festival in 1965 and the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Arne Sucksdorff won Best Director at the 2nd Guldbagge Awards for his work on the film.
In 2019, Anna de Lima Fagerlind published a book titled "My Home is Not Copacabana" about her father Toninho's experience related to the film. The book says Toninho was nine years old when Sucksdorff came to Rio and chose him to star. He was advertised as an orphan street child, but he actually had a mother and siblings and lived with his family in a favela overlooking Ipanema Beach, and was flown to Sweden to promote the film. While in Sweden, a wealthy family offered to adopt him, and his mother agreed after seeing his brother slip into crime.
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